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Folding@Home auto on/off with external Signal

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The "FAHControl" program has the ability to control all kinds of things over port 36330 on remote systems. So yes that is possible, you just have to read a bit into their protocol.

 

Here's an intro to their API: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/wiki/3rd-party-FAHClient-API. If you look around a bit, there should be libs for some programming languages.

 

~edit: If you get the signal on the same machine the client is running, it's probably easier to use their CLI, e.g. 

./FAHClient --send-pause
./FAHClient --send-unpause

 

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Is there a way to tell the Folding@Home Client to pause folding when it gets an external Signal?

I only want folding to run if our photovoltaic system is running. (I get this information with an PLC).

 

 

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The "FAHControl" program has the ability to control all kinds of things over port 36330 on remote systems. So yes that is possible, you just have to read a bit into their protocol.

 

Here's an intro to their API: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/wiki/3rd-party-FAHClient-API. If you look around a bit, there should be libs for some programming languages.

 

~edit: If you get the signal on the same machine the client is running, it's probably easier to use their CLI, e.g. 

./FAHClient --send-pause
./FAHClient --send-unpause

 

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