ctweedle;630115 Wrote: > > 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.No such > luck. The cron job, while it serves to block and unblock SrvrPowerCtrl, is really independent.
ctweedle;630115 Wrote: > Thus far, my server is not 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.Can you look in /var/log/squeezeboxserver/srvrpowerctrl.log and > see if the plugin is actually attempting to program the rtc for alarm wakeup? ctweedle;630115 Wrote: > 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 me 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 -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 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
