[mythtv-users] WOL SBE

[Mike Perkins]

On 13/01/13 23:14, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 14/01/2013 3:24 AM, William Jacoby wrote:
>> I have two machines. The first is a FE/MBE. The second one is FE/SBE. I'd like
>> to set the MBE to use "wakeonlan mac-addrs" to wake up the SBE when needed and
>> also shut it down when not needed. I have the SBE Bios set for WOL. I can
>> manually wake it from the MBE, just not sure how to setup mythtv to do it.
>> After searching all I find are post/articles/wiki entries that pretty much
>> show how to use either "/ACPI WakeUp" /which isn't what I want or how to wake
>> up the MBE.
>>
>>
>
> On the Slave backend, run mythtv-setup,   Navigate to  General -> Backend Wakeup
> Settings
> At the bottom of this page are the two options to shutdown and wakeup the slave
> backend (these are set per SBE, so you need to do this on each slave backend, if
> you have more than one)
>
> - The sleep command for a SBE only can be simply "sudo shutdown -h now" (without
> the quotes) [This command is run on the slave backend]
> - The Wake Command can be simply "wakeonlan <macaddress>"
> [This command is run on the master backend]
>
>
> The FE and BE run as seperate process's on your SBE (and dont talk to each
> other), so the MBE will tell the SBE to shutdown within in couple of minutes of
> startup if it is not required for recording, so your shutdown command needs to
> be a script that checks whether the FE is in use, and block the shutdown until
> the frontend is idle.
> The MBE will only try and shutdown the SBE *ONCE* (unless you restart
> mythtv-backend on the slave or restart the slave)
>
I thought that was why mythwelcome was created? For exactly this scenario? Or 
was it for FE-only machines?

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Mike Perkins