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by PascalW 993 days ago
Instead of using a cronjob you can put the device into sleep and use the RTC to schedule the next wakeup (see [1]). This takes only very little power, as the device is only turned on for mere seconds and sleeps the remaining time.

[1] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/main/src/dash.sh...