Auto start HD Robots

[gabrielMoraya]

Is it possible to auto start a HD robots in an specific time of the day?

[Allan_Zimmermann]

You do not schedule a robot, you schedule a workflow.
hd robots role is to keep a robot alive

and here is different way you can schedule a workflow

Scheduling Robot

This question comes up a lot. There is several ways you can run a robot at an interval. NodeRED The primary way you do that is using NodeRED. NodeRED has several modules for scheduling new messages, I normally go for node-red-contrib-cron and lookup the syntax at crontab.guru [Scheduling1] External application You can schedule jobs from an external application, or using Microsoft task scheduler and then execute a workflow using command line parameters to the robot. You have 2 options for in…

[gabrielMoraya]

I know, my workflows are all scheduled, but sometimes I turn off my hdrobots and forget to turn them back on, causing errors in my workflows the next day. Is there a way to set them to turn on every morning, for example?

[Allan_Zimmermann]

the hd service created a “watch” on the opernpa collection and is reacting on updates to the unattendedclient objects. So you could simply create a NodeRED workflow that updates the “enabled” boolean property to true/false at certain times.