<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Christopher Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@theseekerr.com">mythtv@theseekerr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bob Cunningham <<a href="mailto:FlyMyPG@gmail.com">FlyMyPG@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> - The HTPC truly deep-sleeps or shuts down when not in use.<br>
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Not sure about this. I think there's some support for it, but it<br>
doesn't make any sense to me - shutting down the frontend is easy, but<br>
shutting down the backend seems like you're just asking for missed<br>
recordings. After all, you don't turn off your ReplayTV box, do you?<br><br></blockquote><div><br>MythTV has the capability to to this - you need a motherboard that has a ACPI wakeup and need to set up mythwelcome. See <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup</a> and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythwelcome">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythwelcome</a><br>
<br>My combined FE/BE box is set up this way (MythTV 0.21). It definitely works, but takes some effort to get working just right. When the machine is shut down, it pulls about 10W or so of power. Other power supplies or motherboards may be able to go lower. <br>
Best of luck,<br>-Greg<br></div></div>