sternenjaeger wrote: > Years ago i wrote a small bash script for a bedside Radio to do exactly > this (to reduce power consumption, wifi radiation and primarily to avoid > angry screams from the other half of the bed in case this radio is > accidentally selected as a player late in the evening...). The scripts > asks the Squeezeserver every couple of minutes if this radio is present. > If it is turned on and does not play anything for a couple of minutes, > it connects to the radio via ssh and issues a "poweroff" command. > The radio is then completely turned off. Of course this is only useful > if you never need it as an alarm clock. > The downside is that, after turning it on again with the power button, > you need to wait the app. 20s until it has booted before you can use > it. > > For the older players (Receivers and Boom) i simply use switches. The > receivers are powered with the same switch that controls the power to > the equipment they are connected to. In many cases things like > amplifiers etc. (especially if you have a vintage A/B amp) use much more > standby power than the smallish 3W of the receiver anyway.
Good thing alarm should work anyway , I think ? alarm can start the player from cold ,afiak from the battery use case ? But it will only remeber the next alarm like the boom , so if its power off it will power on 5 minutes before next alarm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105887 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
