Schedule a group in group management

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Hi there,

I’m using pi-hole from version 4.x / beta 5.0 and now on 5.0, the group management is perfect, exactly what was missing in the previous version(s)

From al the groups, there are two that I enable /disable on weekendhours. Is there a way that I can schedule this in any way?

I didn’ find this on a search, but maybe it’s my searchskill :wink:

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example: group name = testgroup

create script /home/pi/modify_testgroup.sh
chmod +x /home/pi/modify_testgroup.sh

dayofweek="$(date +%w)"
group="testgroup"

# Monday (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18919151/crontab-day-of-the-week-syntax)
if [ ${dayofweek} = "1" ]; then 
	enabled=1
# saturday
elif [ ${dayofweek} = "6" ]; then 
	enabled=0
else
	exit
fi

gravitydb="/etc/pihole/gravity.db"
groupid=$(sqlite3 ${gravitydb} "SELECT id FROM 'group' WHERE name = '${group}';")
sudo sqlite3 ${gravitydb} "update 'group' set enabled = '${enabled}' WHERE id = '${groupid}';"

pihole restartdns reload-lists

create cron file /etc/cron.d/modify_testgroup

# enable testgroup on Monday 00:01
1 0    * * 1   root    PATH="$PATH:/home/pi/" /home/pi/modify_testgroup.sh
# disable testgroup on Saturday 00:01
1 0    * * 6   root    PATH="$PATH:/home/pi/" /home/pi/modify_testgroup.sh

last extra blank line in cron file recommended, I found some cron entries don't work if the extra linefeed is missing.

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You have to add
pihole restartdns reload-lists

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correct, edited the above script, thanks.

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Thanks for your reply, I’ll let you know if things works out..

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Attention crontab use sh if your script is bash use bash for exec.

For debug, install postfix for read the error messages because no info in syslog.

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It works like a charm, thanks for your help. :wink:
(Pihole runs on a linux mint virtual machine, so postfix allready in place)