Siegfried Löffler;566193 Wrote: > > The SB Touch is running an embedded Linux on ARM processor. > The clean way of "switching off" a Linux system is to do a complete > shutdown, which however takes time, and takes even more time to wake > the > system up (reboot) afterwards. You can btw observe this on many BluRay > players who take ages to boot. >
No. It has nothing at all to do with Linux. 1) If you turn off a device with a remote, and it is -really- off: how will you turn it back on? It's off: it has no IR sensor waiting for input, no RF sensor waiting for input, no ethernet waiting for 'wake on lan'... it's OFF. You can NOT turn it back on unless you flip a physical switch. There is no way around this. 2) A SB Touch can serve multiple players: if you turn 'off' the Touch in the living room, you won't be able to play music it was serving to the Radio in the Kitchen. It's off. It doesn't do anything when off. People would be very annoyed. > > Yet - if all people on earth who have HiFi chains today buy SBTouches > and > leave them switched on day and night - can you imagine what the > additional > power consumption would be?!? > > So - it's not responsible behaviour to leave it switched on - but its > not > well designed for being switched off. > > Seems there is no easy solution? You do know that is true for your TV, your Microwave, your PC... unless you PHYSICALLY flip a switch or unplug them, they are on. (The switch on the FRONT of your PC does not turn it off. You have to use the one on the back.) Again: if you turn something fully off, you can NOT turn it back on without a physical switch. Period. IR sensors require electricity, as does RF and Wifi and even the touch sensitive panel on the front of your Microwave. It has nothing to do with Linux: I dare you to just use the big switch on the back of your Windows machine to turn it off at night. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80447
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