[mythtv-users] Waking up the Backend when a frontend starts

[Glen Hawksworth]

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 00:27 -0600, Carl Fongheiser wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Glen Hawksworth
> <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am knocking my head against a wall; I have recently decided to go back to
> > using ACPI on my backend server because it is chewing too much power. I have
> > got everything working on the server including WOL but I can't figure our
> > how to get a remote frontend to WOL the backend.
> > I can manually WOL the backend from the frontend system using 'wakeonlan' in
> > the terminal but I can't remember where to put the WOL command within the
> > MythTV software. (I have tried using the "Enable Database Server Wakeup"
> > field on the "Database Configuration 2/2" page but it doesn't work for me)
> > I have spent hours today googling the problem but I can't seem to find
> > anything. I am sure there is a way to have a frontend system wake up the
> > backend, I am sure I found a guide for it the last time I used ACPI, I am
> > sure it is something silly that I am forgetting.
> > Can anyone help me?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Glen
> 
> Umm, have you tried replacing mythfrontend with a shell script that
> invokes "wakeonlan", then invokes the real mythfrontend program?
> 
> Carl Fongheiser
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How embaressment. I had been testing it from my desktop PC (starting a
MythFrontend client and listening for the server to start) and was
having no luck. I just tried it from the HTPC in the lounge and it woke
up the server first go.
The only problem I have now is that the frontend didn't start. I might
have to tweak the number of times that it retrys.
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