[mythtv-users] MythTV box power usage

[James Van Vleet]

Allen Edwards wrote:
>That sounds great!

> 

>Can this be applied to a FE/BE that would have to wake itself up to
record?  This could be a great power savings.

> 

>The ideal would be for it to wake on LAN in some way so that it would
respond to mythweb requests that would be ideal.  I have no idea if
>this is possible.

> 

>If this is not possible, perhaps I can build a low power BE and use
this to wake the FE.

> 

>Allen

 

 

According to some entries in the mythtv wiki, it appears that a BE
should support setting an alarm with the Real Time Clock and having
itself woke up to record things.  I have never done this so someone else
would have to speak up.  In my case I have a dedicated BE that also runs
my SqueezeCenter, file server and webserver.  This would stays on all
the time and by FE is the one that sleeps.

 

-James

     

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