[mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

Harry Orenstein holists at verizon.net
Fri Jan 13 01:57:17 UTC 2006


On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:00 am, James C. Dastrup wrote:
> >I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my
> >power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the
> >BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down
> >assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running.
> >I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it
> >needs to record the next show
>
> I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
> to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
> the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
> commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
> is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
> computer for some other purpose.

Or you could use Wake-on-LIRC  (http://markh.de/wakeonlirc/)


-- Harry O.


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