reniera;604798 Wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to automate the shutdown of SB server: > > I have a magic button at home that turns off all lights when we go to > sleep or when leaving home (=when I turn the alarm on). This is > extremely handy because I stopped counting the times kids leave the > light on. Turning the alarm on, also reduces temperature of central > heating. > > For those who are interested, this is all managed with a PLC Crouzet > Millenium XD26 so it's a bit smarter than cutting everything off : 1 > push on the button turns external lights off, 2nd push turns lights off > in peripheral rooms, 3rd and 4th push turns lights off in the all rooms. > When turning the alarm on (=when leaving home), the sequence is > automatic but at nigh, the external lights stays on for 5 minutes. When > coming home (=when turning the alarm off) at night only, some lights go > on automatically for some time. Imagination is the limit. It must be > smart and transparent enough but eventually wife is happy. Kids are > even more happy because now, they have an excuse for leaving everything > on since they say it's all taken care of magically :( I still need to > deal about that. > > I'd like to go one step further and also turn off some equipments that > are unlikely to be used at home when we sleep or when we're out i.e. > oven, hi-fi stuffs, adsl modem/wi-fi repeater/TV decoders, printers, > PCs, VoIP phones, TVs, countless battery chargers, Nintendo, PS3, a > PopcornHour C-200 on order, a Touch and two Radios, etc... that have > pervasively entered our home. All together these stuffs takes at least > 70W on a permanent basis when idle. This is the power that I need to > maintain the jacuzzi at 36°C ! > > I tested that I can pull the plug of Touch; it always restarts OK (so > far). My problem is to shutdown the SQ server nicely. It's a > Dockstar/debian. Perhaps I'll go to vortexbox in a near future. > > Coming back to the QUESTION : How can I generate a clean shutdown based > on a contact on a relay (before taking power off) ? > > Also, I have battery packs in the two radios. Shutting power off is > therefore useless because I consume power to charge the battery later. > In the worst case, batteries are empty when I need them. So I'd like to > initiate a clean shutdown of the Radios as well. Any magic mechanism > that the server send a CLI command before shutting down ? > > Thanks for your ideas.
Should be no problem to sens a command to a Linux box to go into sleep mode. With VortexBox you could hit a URL to do it. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer VortexBox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agillis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21140 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85017
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