Running a video based on specific time

[0xAazaad]

I have 2 videos 'a' and 'b'.

I want video a to loop continuously. video b to run every even hour (0000 hrs, 0200, hrs, 0400 hrs...) once and then go back to looping a.

I also want to be able to choose different volumes for both videos.

Can someone help with achieving this?

Thanks in advance.

[shell3000]

You can use a script to move your files in and out of your video folder, here /home/pi/video:

/bin/bash

mv /home/pi/video/b.mp4 /home/pi/video_off mv /home/pi/video_off/a.mp4 /home/pi/video

sleep 30 #videduration

mv /home/pi/video/a.mp4 /home/pi/video_off mv /home/pi/video_off/b.mp4 /home/pi/video

Afterwards you modify your crontab to start the script at your given time:

0 0 /bin/bash /home/pi/timer.sh >> /home/pi/timer.log 2>&1 0 2 /bin/bash /home/pi/timer.sh >> /home/pi/timer.log 2>&1 0 4 /bin/bash /home/pi/timer.sh >> /home/pi/timer.log 2>&1 0 6 /bin/bash /home/pi/timer.sh >> /home/pi/timer.log 2>&1

It works very well.

[0xAazaad]

Thank you. What's a good way to autorun this on start?

[shell3000]

crontab -e

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

@shell3000 good solution! this is probably the best solution for this besides creating a whole scheduler function/code in video_looper