[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[Gary Dawes]

On 28 December 2011 18:23, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 28 December 2011 16:23, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> my Myth Master is still the power hungry dual-core
>> >> AMD, but it now shuts down when not required,
>>
>> > This is, by far, the best way to save power.
>>
>> Except, when off, it can no longer provide DHCP, NAS, backup, or any
>> other network services (maybe you'd like to connect to your home
>> network from work or when traveling). If you use your combined
>> MythBE+FE for nothing else other than Myth, then sleeping makes
>> sense... but if you need something on 24/7 anyway, you might as well
>> make it a low-power device and you might as well run your MythBE on
>> it: that, by far, is the best way to save power.
>>
>> And that is exactly what my Pogoplug (running debian) is for.
> it runs the folllowing:
>
>    - DHCP
>    - DNS
>    - Web server (apache and ajaxplorer and owncloud)b 2
>    - NAS (nfs and samba)
>    - UPNP server for music and videos (mediatomb and ampache)
>    - Homeautomation server (HomeAutomation & Telldus tellstick)
>    - Torrent server (transmission)
>    - Wakes up the Masterbackend on demand
>
> None of these are very intensive and run happily on the pogoplug which
> draws only 4W + a usb hard disk.
>

I should add that I have a php script on my webserver, which will permit me
to power up my MBE via wakeonlan from any internet connection.
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