PasTim wrote: > Some of you may have tried and failed to use Squeezeplay to wake (from > hibernation or suspension) a server managed by SvrPowerControl. I have > a desktop PC on which I occasionally run Squeezeplay, and it works fine, > waking the server as expected. > > I also have a laptop, running Linux, on which I run Squeezeplay only > when I retire to bed feeling ill, as I did yesterday. Squeezeplay did > not wake up my server, giving rise to exceeding grumpiness. > > Feeling better today I investigated. I installed 'etherwake' and tried > that. This gave an error, saying that eth0 was an invalid device. It > turns out that Squeezeplay on Linux assumes that the network device is > eth0. On my laptop the wired network is on eth1, and wireless on wlan0. > So I created a short command file to use when using a wireless > connection: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > gksu etherwake -i wlan0 00:11:22:33:44:55 > -------------------- > > > > where 00:.... is the MAC of my server. > > I can now run this whenever I need to so as to wake the server. > Problem fixed. If you have a similar problem with Squeezeplay (and > possibly other software variations on this theme such as > Squeezeslave), you might want to check this out. > > By the way I did wonder where to post this, and on balance thought > that it would be most relevant to those running SvrPowerControl. I > did a search for posts with similar content but only found a few from > 2008 saying it didn't work at all on Squeezeplay. The version I am > running is 7.7.2 r9598M (rebuilt by to support higher quality sound - > see > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?93505-Squeezeplay-plays-up-to-192k). Actually, I've been meaning to ask Triode if he has any plans on incorporating WOL functionality into squeezelite.
What do folks think would be the intelligent way to code that? WOL the server whenever there's a play request and a server response times out? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
