Hello:
Sometimes I want to play a game, do some music recording, focus on some graphic art project, read a book in peace, or just have a quiet phone conversation in my home office. To do this, I have to switch one of my monitors over to the workstation and hit "pause" on the F@H client. Then I hit "fold" when I'm done. It's a minor-to-medium hassle.
Sometimes I forget to start folding again. On occasion, a few days will have gone by before I realize I'm not folding. And all that because I shut it down to play a game and then went to bed when I got tired and just forgot to turn it back on again. Grrr!
Setting the client's priority slider doesn't give me the flexibility that I want. I'm basically looking for a way to shut down the folding and then to optionally restart it at a certain time or upon a certain event.
I'm thinking of writing a batch command script with some of the most common options I think I'll use. Maybe the script could be be launched by timer or by command. It would be even better if I can launch it by a cell phone app, and best if it could be done when I'm not even home...in fact, that would rock!
Here are some of the options I'd like to have:
1. Stop folding, with these options:
-- Immediately (aka "pause")
-- After current WUs finish (aka "finish")
-- at a specific time today
-- x hours or y minutes from now (shut it down before a pre-arranged meeting)
-- make "stop" persistent across a reboot until I specifically restart the client or issue a start command (this would be nice to have for when I'm upgrading hardware or software and expect to do numerous reboots).
-- optionally with Folding restart parameters (see #2)
2. Start folding (as part of the stop command, or optionally issue start command by itself):
-- Immediately
-- at a specific time today
-- upon next reboot
-- x hours or y minutes from now (when I know my meeting will be over or when I know I'll have gone to bed)
-- after some event occurs (like a render finishes, or when I close a game)
So to be clear, I don't want folding to be set to "light" mode. The slider messes things up. Basically, I want my folding to happen full-blast or dead-stop. I'd like to do this with either RUN commands or maybe with some desktop icons with the 3 or 4 most-used options.
How can I go about making something like this happen?