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5. Schedule next startup
This option allows you to specify when your Raspberry Pi should startup
automatically.
Please notice the input format should be “DD HH:MM:SS”, DD means the day in the
month, HH is the hour, MM is the minute and SS is the second. All these should be 2
digits and 24-hour system is used. Different than the shutdown scheduling, you can
specify the second here.
You can also use “??” as wildcard, which gives you the possibility to make a
repeatable schedule. Please see the table below:
Repeatable Startup Schedule
Day
(dd)
Hour
(HH)
Minute
(MM)
Result
??
??
??
Minutely Schedule
??
??
Number
Hourly Schedule
??
Number
Number
Daily Schedule
According to the hardware limitation, not all patterns with wildcards are supported.
The rule is: wildcards have to show up from let to right, and there is no number
between two wildcards. So “?? ??:??:12” is OK, while “?? 15:??:25” is not supported.
If you input an unsupported pattern, Witty Pi Mini will try to change it to the closest one
that could be supported. You will see the message on the console.
Here are some examples of scheduling the startup:
 15 07:30:00 means 7:30 in the morning, on 15
th
in this month.
 ?? 23:30:00 means 23:30:00 at night everyday (daily schedule)
 ?? ??:15:00 means the 15th minute every hour (hourly schedule)
 ?? ??:??:05 means the 5th second every minute (minutely schedule)
If you are running the GUI, you can specify the next startup time by clicking the “Edit”
button in the row: