[mythtv-users] Way to tell BE came up after power fail?

[stinga]

On 28/10/13 20:18, Craig Huff wrote:
> I'd still like a better way to tell that the system came up due to 
> power being restored, but at this point it looks like I'd have to pull 
> out a soldering iron and build a flip-flop tied to an unused signal 
> line (e.g. CTS/RTS on a serial port) and resettable under program 
> control such that the signal is set when power fail / restore occurs 
> and gets cleared by program control after using the info to do 
> appropriate processing (e.g. re-enable shutdowns).
>
> If anyone reads this and has an idea for an existing way to detect 
> boot-up on power restore, I'd love to hear about it (e.g. BIOS info or 
> something gleaned from somewhere in the /sys or /proc subdirectory trees).

Go find the cheapest UPS you can and never have it fail on running of juice.

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