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I use several instances of Schedex in my home automation with NR over Raspi 3B+ Jessie. The flow example is above. Similar flows work for watering and lighting jobs. For some reason, after OS boot the Schedex reports the correct next action (waved with blue), but the first-after-OS-boot action doesn't work. Second and further actions work like a charm.
As workarounds I used to use one of following:
- WA1: Just wait until next action. This is from several hours to few days, depends on programmed schedule.
- WA2: Manually node-red-stop --> node-red-start via SSH after the OS boot completed.
The problem initially was spotted about year and half ago. Fortunately, RasPI reboots don't happen often, so the pain is minor... and this took me a while to gather courage to share this problem with the community. All this time I could not correlate it with any reason. Not sure the correlation above is relevant. What do you think? What can be a root cause?
Recently, I noticed on other RasPIs, not running NR, but running my own software.
If my software loads before NTP is synced with the pool, then the synced time isn't taken into account, until next sync at night time.
The NTP sometimes lags to sync due to network imperfections: delay in DHCP or DNS response, interruptions/delay in WiFi link, etc.
Maybe the same reason causes Schedex to skip the first action?
Maybe Schedex is just a victim of NR provided time?
Is there a way to delay the NR start after OS boot? I want to give the NTP a chance to get synced time first and then start the NR.
Any idea is welcome.
Thank you.
