Feature request - Mining schedule

[Thatmanontheright]

Request for scheduled mining.
Scenario: Alice always works from 7 till 5. She would like the miner to be on while she is away on turn off when she comes home. With scheduled mining she can set and forget.

[Joedang]

FYI, this feature is built into most/all operating systems. On Linux and Mac you can use Cron jobs, and Windows has Task Scheduler.

For example, Alice could add the following Cron jobs:

# start the miner at 5pm (1700) Monday through Friday
0 1700 * * 1-5 /path/to/vertcoin-ocm

# kill the miner at 7am (0700) Monday through Friday
0 0700 * * 1-5 /sbin/pkill vertcoin-ocm

Similarly, on Windows, Alice could create a scheduled task that starts vertcoin-ocm.exe at 5pm Mon.-Thurs. that terminates after running for 10 hours and another scheduled task that starts at 5pm on Friday and terminates after 58 hours.