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<p>I think GUI will be needed anyway regardless of Fremantle's support. By the response and thanks in tmo in just a few minutes I'm guessing that the interest for such application will be high.</p>
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<p>A RFC for people who know details about Fremantle's power aspect:</p>
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<p>I wrote a python script called Shepherd for my Diablo N810, basically a</p>
<p>glorified CRON that has not just time, but a power and connectivity axis, too.</p>
<p>This means you can define for various processes:</p>
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<p> * hours allowed</p>
<p> * connection type allowed (I guess you could define exact connections, but</p>
<p>I never got that far)</p>
<p> * power requirements (plugged in, or a minimum % of battery)</p>
<p> * user inactivity (also started to implement, but never actually finished)</p>
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<p>I used it for a couple of things... Flipclock (turn on if charging),</p>
<p>transmission (turn on if charging and on WLAN between 2AM and 8AM) and killing</p>
<p>maps if battery gets below 25%. It's very rudimentary, no GUI or other magic -</p>
<p>it just launches the app if it is not already running and conditions are met,</p>
<p>and kills it if they aren't (but only if they were started by the shepherd</p>
<p>app).</p>
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<p>Now, my question for people already working with Fremantle would be whether it</p>
<p>already includes similar scheduling/battery/bill saving functionality (or</p>
<p>parts of it) and if you think a script like this would be interesting to get</p>
<p>ported to Fremantle and get a proper GUI ?</p>
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