[mythtv-users] Wake on lan for front end?

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 23:34:21 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Joe Henley <joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> What you describe is how I have my system set up.
>
> I put the FE into S-3 at the end of every use.  Then when I want to watch
> something again, it takes only seconds to restart.  I cycle thru S-3 to
> active and back for weeks at a time with little to no problems.
>
> I do have periodic problems; maybe once every month or two, where I have to
> shut the FE down completely and then reboot.  My suspicion is that it's a
> power glitch or similar issue.  I've never been able to find a software
> cause for it.  And it takes only three or four minutes to power down
> completely and reboot, so it's no big deal.
>
> There are alot of folks who are doing similar things with the MiniMyth FE
> package.  Check out www.minimyth.org.
>
> Good luck!  Try MiniMyth -- you're going to like it.

Yes - I second the recommendation for minimyth.  It suspends very well
right out of the box.  I never could get a nfsroot setup to resume
from suspend, so finding minimyth with the ram rootfs was a good
thing.  It will auto setup almost everything for you.

I would recommend using nfs (or any type of share) for a themecache
though.  It great speeds up loading the artwork for you.  I have all
the exact same frontends, so they all mount the same place and share
the info.


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