There may be times when you want certain activities to happen at certain times of the day and you are not always available to execute them.
For instance, every day at 6 P.M. turn on the backyard light and at 5 A.M. turn it off. A very mundane task and a human presence is really not required.
That is where a scheduling engine comes into picture. You set up a schedule, similar to a wake-up alarm, defining when the schedule should fire and what action should happen at that time. This will take care of getting the job done.
There are services such as cron-job.org (https://cron-job.org/en/), EasyCron (https://www.easycron.com/), or Getcron (http://www.getcron.com/index_EN.html) that can be leveraged to run jobs.
You can always build ...
