<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I recently went through the same issue. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I went with shutdown/wakeup with an ACPI alarm.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's actually not that hard to setup and has been rock solid for the last 3 days or so.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I followed this guide (mostly)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/ACPIWake">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/ACPIWake</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Don Brett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I've been researching power saving strategies for a while, but I haven't <br>quite figured out which strategy to use with MythTv. I have a dedicated <br>system (mostly) that could easily be turned off much of the day.<br><br>I've seen shutdown/wakeup, suspend2, mythshutdown, nvram-wakeup, and <br>others. Does anyone know or have a link to a recommended approach? <br>Thanks,<br><br>Don<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>