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


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