# Start robot timeout

**URL:** <https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076>\
**Category:** OpenCore\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076 "2025-03-05T13:51:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/Mus)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/1 "2025-03-05T13:51:01Z")

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Hello  
how to start openrpa project that invoke remote openflow, i see timeout in the robot workflows, it work but if there any other way to do with custom timeout or set cronjob for example robot start every day at 10:00

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**Author:** ![Allan\_Zimmermann](https://discourse.openiap.io/user_avatar/discourse.openiap.io/allan_zimmermann/32/12_2.png) [@Allan\_Zimmermann](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/Allan_Zimmermann)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/2 "2025-03-05T16:51:27Z")

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Does this answer your question?

> [@Scheduling Robot](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/scheduling-robot/19):
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> 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](https://crontab.guru/#5_4/2_*_*_*) [Scheduling1] External application You can schedule jobs from an external application, or using [Microsoft task scheduler](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/about-the-task-scheduler) and then execute a workflow using command line parameters to the robot. You have 2 options for in…

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**Author:** ![Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/Mus)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/3 "2025-03-07T15:44:33Z")

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When you use NodeRED’s cron node, it keeps running after finishing tasks. This is not what you want.

- Start at 9:00 AM each day.
- invoke openrpa do task
- Stop running after the task is done.

all this doing it in vm without the need of me to start robot

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**Author:** ![Allan\_Zimmermann](https://discourse.openiap.io/user_avatar/discourse.openiap.io/allan_zimmermann/32/12_2.png) [@Allan\_Zimmermann](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/Allan_Zimmermann)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/4 "2025-03-07T16:49:43Z")

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There are many cron modules for Node-RED, so it’s hard to know which one you are referring to. But there is one just called [cron](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-cron). If that is the one, you need to contact the developer of that module. You can try creating an issue at the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/chameleonbr/node-red-contrib-cron), and if that does not help, try one of the many other modules.

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**Author:** ![Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mus](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/Mus)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/5 "2025-03-11T13:04:23Z")

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Thank, i used inject with fixed time

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.openiap.io/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a1ca7b164ac9a826839704d9ac82c7b5e6bcf557.png) [@system](https://discourse.openiap.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.openiap.io/t/start-robot-timeout/2076/6 "2025-03-14T13:05:08Z")

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