At my own peril, I spent some time this afternoon googling the Linux cron job protocol. I think I understand what it supposed to do but I need to do more research/investigation before having the confidence to try it. Conceptually, it seems like it is possible to execute a command something like this: "30 0 * * 2-0 pm-suspend" to handle leaving the server on for just Monday AM, although I'm not sure the 2-0 is correct to denote a Tuesday through Sunday sequence, let alone the rest of the text.
I assume that your excellent plug in somehow puts a friendly face on the chron job procedure, which is a real benefit for folks like me. Thus far, my server is automatically waking from the suspend state (S3) by a Squeezebox server alarm. I will see what happens when the RTC BIOS command change I made today kicks in in the morning. That might be a work-around. I understand the concept of triggering a "silent alarm" for the overnight session when I want the server to remain on. Is it necessary to have one of my Squeezebox players turned on for that to work? Or, is there a way to execute the alarm without having at least one player on? (I try to turn them off at night too.) Perhaps the Squeezebox server could be faked out by triggering some other event to keep itself awake to allow time for the other tasks to commence. Of course, this assumes that I can fiddle with the settings and keep my server in a low power mode overnight but still aware enough to turn itself back on. The suspend S3 mode only consumes 1.4 watts according to my Kill-A-Watt, which is great. Oddly, when the server is in the S3 mode, the power switch will not turn it back on. I have to remove the power cable and plug it back in to bring the server to life. However, when I used your plug in last night to do a total shutdown (before I adjusted the BIOS to shutdown to the S3 mode), the server shut down at the correct time, did not wake up at the designated alarm time but quickly turned on with a press of the power button. That's always a fall back. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to my query from your "undisclosed location" via your iPad. I look forward to hearing your additional thoughts when you have the time and are back by a regular keyboard. My wife bought an iPad for my birthday. My silent thought at the time was "thanks but what am I going to do with this?" (I love my iPhone but am not an Apple fanboy by default). Now I can't live without it! Thanks again for your assistance...and all the work that you are putting into your plug ins! Chuck -- ctweedle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ctweedle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46451 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
