Scheduling Tasks with Cron

Following instruction from here: RaspberryPi.org: Scheduling Tasks With Cron

1st, left try installing gnome-schedule, for a graphical interface to set up cron tasks:

pi@oscbridge:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

(takes ~8mins)

This installs the program, and adds a menu item to the main menu at System Tools -> Scheduled tasks.

Having installed it, run the program to set up tasks - for example, to restart Node-RED daily:

• Click Menu -> System Tools -> Scheduled tasks
• Click New
• Choose ‘A task that launches recurrently’
• Give the task a description - eg. “Re-start Node-RED”
• Enter the command - eg. sudo systemctl restart nodered
• Choose a schedule - eg. Advanced - Minute:0 Hour:7
• Click Add
• Job done!