[mythtv-users] What is the recommended power management system to use with MythTv?

[Ma Begaj]

2007/12/18, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net>:
> Andrew Davidson wrote:
> > I recently went through the same issue.
> >
> > I went with shutdown/wakeup with an ACPI alarm.
> >
> > It's actually not that hard to setup and has been rock solid for the
> > last 3 days or so.
> >
> > I followed this guide (mostly)
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/ACPIWake
> >
> >
> > *___________________________________*
> > *Andrew Davidson*
> > andrew at amdavidson.com <mailto:andrew at amdavidson.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Don Brett wrote:
> >
> >> I've been researching power saving strategies for a while, but I haven't
> >> quite figured out which strategy to use with MythTv.  I have a dedicated
> >> system (mostly) that could easily be turned off much of the day.
> >>
> >> I've seen shutdown/wakeup, suspend2, mythshutdown, nvram-wakeup, and
> >> others.  Does anyone know or have a link to a recommended approach?
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Don
> >>
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> Thanks, I looked at the Ubuntu guide, but it looks too different from
> the distro I have installed (Fedora 7).  Too bad, it looks pretty
> straight forward.
>
> I also researched the STR, and had some success with suspend2, but it
> was a bit too cutting edge for my daughters pvr (kinda zero-tolerance).
> Nvram-wakeup also looked promising, but pretty complex.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a guide for any of these that are written
> for Fedora?  Thanks again,
>
> Don
>

Why don't you just try it yourself? Write the wakeup time
/proc/acpi/alarm (+2 minutes from now) and shutdown your mythbox. if
it wakes up, you can use MythWelcome.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mythwelcome