[SOLVED] How to delay pimatic autostart after system start

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Hi,
is it simple possible to delay the autostart of pimatic after system start for e.g. 5 seconds?

I like to keep the possibility to start, stop and check pimatic by using sudo pimatic.js start/stop/restart/status

@ortin
I’m afraid I don’t know much about scripts. But maybe it is possible to add a sleep 5 for 5 sec
in /etc/init.d/pimatic
I think after the line with the path.
If you have create a autostart like this.

On the other hand, I don’t understand why. If pimatic is not running you can’t get a status or quit it. You can only start.

Have a really special constalation here. My system image is created in a way to fit to multiple raspberrys devices with different HW configs (with HDD, without, with different HDD…). It’s really tricky. It should work for me and the others whose system I am maintaining equally.
My problem is that pimatic sometimes don’t start at system boot, because my HDD where pimatic and all the stuff is located needs to long to wake up.

@Thrusty: I will try it.

Maybe it would be enough to put a simple boot delay, but this is an adaption of the system (image). I was looking for something I can handle by the pimatic config.

@OrTiN
There is also a possibility for a Boot_delay of the Raspberry. Maybe this is a better solution to wait for the HDD.
If the Raspberry with the SD card only boots, but the file system is on an HDD.

The boot_delay delayed as well the HDD wake up so I had no benefit.
The simple sleep in /etc/init.d/pimatic did it for me.

@ortin
I’m glad it’s working. I never needed this function, so I never tried it. I had only read about it at some point.