My Slimdevices Slimserver runs on a old power hungry Pentium III 800 MHz which I prefer not to left running when Im not using it. Shutting the thing down was either a trip into the garage, or a terminal server remote login via another networked computer (hopefully still running) to log it off!
I have thus written a plugin to avoid this messing about. I know there are similar plugins about based on running batch files, or automated from inactivity timeouts - but I wanted something a little bit more direct :-) The Slimserver 6.5.1 code is for Windows machines and force closes other applications except Slimserver which is (hopefully) shutdown correctly. The Linux / Mac talented among you may suggest changes for those platforms. Once installed, you will find a Server Power Control entry in the Squeezebox units displayed plugins list. Clicking right, you have the choice of shutting down or restarting the server. Clicking right from here will do the selected action in 3 seconds (which also blanks the display) unless you navigate back. If a track is playing, it will remain playing from the players buffer - no big issue. The file PowerCtrl.pm should be placed in Slimservers plugin directory, and Slimserver restarted. Enjoy :-) -- Adrian C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: PowerCtrl.pm | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2405| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- tenwiseman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tenwiseman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5764 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32674
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