The consensus and my gut feeling both suggested 2 so that is the option I have settled on...

The control software is working - it needs more development but I am up against a time restriction as Christmas is coming and this controller is supposed to be a Christmas gift! I'm using only code modules as installing anything from CPAN seems to fail but this can be addressed later provided I set up a way to SSH onto the RPi before it gets installed in its new home.

The problem I have hit is with CRON.

The first few lines of the script are: 

#!usr/bin/perl

use lib '.';
use Curtains::Control;
use Bod::Config;

use strict;

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But, despite the shebang line, it won't run simply by calling curtains.pl it needs perl curtains.pl instead. Perl is definitely installed in /usr/bin/perl and I also get this: 
pi@eric:~ $ /home/pi/Curtains/curtains.pl
-bash: /home/pi/Curtains/curtains.pl: usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: N
+o such file or directory

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So I suspect I have something wrong in this setup.

Within the crontab I have added: 

MAILTO=ian@****.com
*/2 * * * * perl /home/pi/Curtains/curtains.pl

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but I am not getting emails with any errors from CRON.

I am using the default pi account which I believe is the RPi equivalent to root.

In reply to Re: Continuous or timed? by Bod
in thread Continuous or timed? by Bod

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