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On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 00:27 -0600, Carl Fongheiser wrote:
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Glen Hawksworth
<<A HREF="mailto:glenhawk@optusnet.com.au">glenhawk@optusnet.com.au</A>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am knocking my head against a wall; I have recently decided to go back to
> using ACPI on my backend server because it is chewing too much power. I have
> got everything working on the server including WOL but I can't figure our
> how to get a remote frontend to WOL the backend.
> I can manually WOL the backend from the frontend system using 'wakeonlan' in
> the terminal but I can't remember where to put the WOL command within the
> MythTV software. (I have tried using the "Enable Database Server Wakeup"
> field on the "Database Configuration 2/2" page but it doesn't work for me)
> I have spent hours today googling the problem but I can't seem to find
> anything. I am sure there is a way to have a frontend system wake up the
> backend, I am sure I found a guide for it the last time I used ACPI, I am
> sure it is something silly that I am forgetting.
> Can anyone help me?
> Thanks in advance,
> Glen
Umm, have you tried replacing mythfrontend with a shell script that
invokes "wakeonlan", then invokes the real mythfrontend program?
Carl Fongheiser
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How embaressment. I had been testing it from my desktop PC (starting a MythFrontend client and listening for the server to start) and was having no luck. I just tried it from the HTPC in the lounge and it woke up the server first go.<BR>
The only problem I have now is that the frontend didn't start. I might have to tweak the number of times that it retrys.
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