[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

Tortise tortise at paradise.net.nz
Thu Sep 2 09:23:02 UTC 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Watkins" <watkinshome at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?


> If you want to use mythweb, which is my primary (actually, only) way
> of setting recordings, it needs to be on all the time. I can't tell
> you how many times I have been someplace, heard of a show, and set
> mythweb to record it. If I didn't do it at that moment, I would
> probably forget all about it.


>I already have one computer (an NSLU2 Slug) on 24/7 and didn't want my
combined BE/FE to be another one, so I set it to shutdown and wakeup
as David Rees suggested.

>If I need remote access to mythweb I SSH into the Slug and turn on my
mythbox using Wake-On-LAN.

>Not sure if you could use WOL without some sort of  'always on'
computer at home?

WOL can even be called from phones such as android.  An always on router is probably also required (at least if not using static 
IP's) - but perhaps you were not including that one? 



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