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dcdc

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Message 107944 - Posted: 24 Apr 2022, 10:25:50 UTC

Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way to control BOINC using IFTTT or something similar, presumably via BOINC's API?

What I'd like to achieve is to pause BOINC whenever the carbon intensity on the grid is high, and then restart it when it drops again.

I'm in the UK, so there's a few options on an API to find out the current carbon intensity - e.g. https://carbonintensity.org.uk/.
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Message 107947 - Posted: 24 Apr 2022, 15:21:04 UTC - in response to Message 107944.  

BOINC comes with the boinccmd utility that can be used to script certain functions. Using IFTTT with boinccmd should be fairly straight forward.
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Message 107952 - Posted: 24 Apr 2022, 21:03:12 UTC - in response to Message 107947.  

Ah yeah, that's probably easiest. I was thinking it would need to be something more complicated!

If I get a script working I'll post it back here, but it might take me a while.

Thanks :)
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