[mythtv-users] Update: Pundit/MythFE Distro

[Steve Davidson]

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 11:18, Matt Marsh wrote:
> > > I've been wondering about the whole wake-up from remote myself too. Do
> > > you think it will be possible from using an IR remote in the serial support
> > > as you suggest? I noticed from the Pundit manual that it does have an 
> > > option to wake when and external modem signals one of the serial lines,
> > > so if you could get the IR remote to do that I suppose it would be possible?
> > 
> > Yes! If the pundit is able to wake up when on modem signal, it's
> > possible to wake it up with a serial IR as well. (Worst case, you have
> > to buy a tiny DB9 connector and solder 2 lines together with your IR
> > remote)
> 
> Then that sounds like a possibility. The manual on the ASUS site does
> say that it can wake on the external modem signal which I take to mean
> serial modem...

This is what I was thinking of.  *should* be do-able.

BTW, is the download on the Asus site working now?  All of the versions
that I've gotten have been corrupt.  Could someone send me the PDF?
(buzzdat1 at attbi.com)

> 
> > > The only other way I could think of getting remote wakeup to work was
> > > to use some X10 kit, but that would require at least 3 pieces of kit:
> > > 1. an X10 remote to send an X10 reciever (these can also plug into the
> > >    machine so that once it boots it will pick up and give events to
> > >    the machine).
> > > 2. An X10 reciever which would pick up the event from the remote and
> > >    send out another X10 event to an X10 computer controller.
> > > 3. An X10 computer controller which would signal the serial line to
> > >    make the machine wakeup.
> > > That's all getting a bit expensive and clumsy though...
> > 
> > You can't realy use that in combination with suspend to ram. AFAIK, the
> > X10 cuts power, meaning the RAM would lose power and thus lose its
> > contents...
> 
> Ah, that's certainly one way of using X10, but you can buy an X10 computer
> controller which plugs into the serial port and will do the wake up thing
> as though it is a modem just like in the above IR way. But anyway, there
> is no need for all this X10 nonsense if the IR remote works fine... the
> only pity is that for the IR one I'm gonna have to have a visible dongle :-(
> 
> Matt

Feels like overkill to me... <g>

== Steve