[mythtv-users] MythWeb WOL/Redirector

[Ashley Bostock]

2008/7/25 Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>:
> I love MythWeb and for simplicity's sake, I wanted to run it from my master
> backend. But I also wanted to use ACPI and some other power saving techniques
> to shutdown/sleep the backend when it wasn't being used.
>
> The trouble is that I work at night and want to access MythWeb, I can't, since
> it needs the master backend to be up.
>
> So rather than running it 24/7, I worked on this "MythWeb WOL/Redirector" PHP
> page to be run from another webserver, which is more likely to be running
> 24/7.
>
> It's all here: http://messinet.com/?page_name=MythWebWOLRedirector
>
> I hope it's useful for some others. *Constructive* comments, feedback,
> suggestions, etc. welcome.
>
> Thanks for MythTV and MythWeb!
>
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I do the same thing with my mythbox, but just use
http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup for sending the wake up packet.  What
would be useful though would be a way to lock the backend using
mythweb without having to ssh in and run mythshutdown --lock.

Ash