[mythtv-users] Simple power down/power up solution

[mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk]

Nick wrote: 
> 
> On 5/11/05, Barry Jett <bjett80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought I would share this simple solution for remotely 
> powering up my Myth frontend box.
> > 
<snip> 
> > This motherboard WILL NOT restart from wake-on-lan ( and I hope 
> > someone can disprove me on this). I've tried everything, 
> but when you 
> > power down the system the ethernet will power down as well. 
> I suspect 
> > the problem is due to the driver for the ATI 9100 on-board 
> lan. I also 
> > tried bios tricks for setting the wake on a schedule time with no 
> > avail.
>
>
> My Pundit-R (uses the ATI IXP200/9100IGP chipset) does not 
> support WOL, which is a PITA. I currently use nvram-wakeup to 
> let it turn off and on on its own, but obviously this does 
> not let you wake it up remotely.

AOL, I use the power button on the remote which kills the frontend
then the backend automatically shuts down when it's idle. I was using the
wireless keyboard to turn it on (sat on a speaker behind the sofa so just
reach
behind and hit it ;-) ) but as I never use for anything apart from that the 
batteries are dying and I probably wont bother to replace them.

I've been giving it some thought recently and I thought it might be possible
to hack a keyboard or mouse to give a key/button press when they detect an 
IR signal, it would have to detect the correct button otherwise any remote 
would turn it on.
Trouble is that the only (hardware) decoders I looked at would be so much 
grief/expense (for me anyway) to design/build I think I'll just walk over to

the box and hit the power button. :-)

David