[mythtv-users] Powering up hidden FE

[Kenneth Emerson]

Yes, please share when it is convenient.
 On Dec 24, 2011 12:23 PM, "Dale Pontius" <DEPontius at edgehp.net> wrote:

> On 12/24/2011 12:31 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> > On 12/24/2011 12:20, Kenneth Emerson wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm building my first front end and have the opportunity to hide the
> >> box in the basement hiding the wires in the wall. I'm using a Rosewill
> >> mceusb remote and can bring the IR receiver up the wall as well.  Is
> >> there a method to power up the FE using only the remote (either power
> >> off or sleep mode)?
> >>
> >
> > The MCEUSB units can power up a machine over USB if powered off the 5VSB
> > signal, but it relies on the motherboard being able to accept the signal
> > in that sleep state.  Some can, other can't.
>
> I'm running a dedicated FE machine this way.  Right after kernel-2.6.32
> it became necessary to do extra tweaks in the /sys tree to tell the
> proper USB stuff to stay awake while the system slept.  Simply setting
> stuff in /proc/acpi/wake no longer works.  Apparently I have one of
> lucky motherboards.  Incidentally, there wasn't much documentation, nor
> was it readily available about the post-2.6.32 /sys tweaks to support
> USB wakeup from the mceusb receiver.  That system is sleeping now, but
> if anyone needs the info, I can grab it next time it's awake.
>
> Dale
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