[mythtv-users] MythTV box power usage

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, James Van Vleet <james.vanvleet at verety.com
> wrote:

> Allen Edwards wrote:
>
> >     How long does it take a myth unit to come out of its power down
> >     state?  Can it wake on a remote key command?
> >
>
> I have my frontend using suspend to RAM and I recommend it as a great
> tradeoff between power savings and power on speed.  I have a dual core
> Intel of some sort that my Killowatt meter registers at about 83 watts
> idle.  Once the PC is suspended to RAM it takes only 9 watts.
>
> Suspend from RAM takes about 3-5 seconds (it is ready as fast as my TV
> is).  My USB IR device will wake it up from sleep so I can turn
> everything on with my remote.
>
> All I had to do was enable suspend to RAM in my kernel, add an irexec
> command to hibernate on the IR power button, and a few small changes to
> tell the system USB devices should wake up the system.
>
>
> -James


That sounds great!

Can this be applied to a FE/BE that would have to wake itself up to record?
 This could be a great power savings.

The ideal would be for it to wake on LAN in some way so that it would
respond to mythweb requests that would be ideal.  I have no idea if this is
possible.

If this is not possible, perhaps I can build a low power BE and use this to
wake the FE.

Allen
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