Add simple scheduling to your projects with an Adafruit IO scheduled trigger. Turn on or off lamps, fans, solenoids, and other small appliances without the headache of reading and parsing output from real-time-clock (RTC) or obtaining the network time.
This guide’s project is a continuation of the IoT Power Outlet guide where we built an internet-connected electrical outlet with an Adafruit PyPortal and connected it to Adafruit IO. This guide will take the IoT Power Outlet guide one step further by adding some scheduling logic to the outlet to turn a lamp on or off at a specific time or day.
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