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Adding a default turn on time to Witty Pi 4 L3V7

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I am running a PI Zero 2W from a solar panel, using a Witty Pi 4 L3V7 to schedule when the device is run.  The system is out in a prairie and hooked to a solar panel to keep batteries charged.  If there are too many cloudy days, the battery will discharge enough that it can't help provide the surge of power needed when the PI and it's periphials are powering on.  Once that happens, the system will never turn on again, because the schedule script is never run.  I didn't see any options in the firmware to have a default interval for turning on the PI, so I was going to add one.  I just want the firmware to always schedule the next turn on time for 5 minutes later, and then I can change that to a different time with the normal schedule script once the system has booted.  I am generally familiar with the arduino setup() and loop() stuff, but it didn't look like that's where the turn on code was at, and I figured it was worth asking where I should add code before I spent a bunch of time trying to figure it out.

 
Posted : 10/12/2025 6:52 pm
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