kolossos4730 wrote: > Greg thanks for your encouragement, > > On Windows PC's WOL is a feature of BIOS/UEFI and the network card > (driver). On modern PC's (especially those sold on the European market) > there is a green option in the BIOS which, when turned on, lowers power > consumption when off but disables WOL. MACs should also be able to > accept WOL magic packets according to Google. > > Raspberry Pi's do not have a WOL function as far as I know. No need to > turn of the Pi as the idle power consumption is pretty low. See > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=39714 > > On my Intel NUC LMS server I use the Server Power Control plugin to > schedule shutdown of the LMS server if no music has been played for the > last hour and turn off all connected players. Saves a few Euros per > year. > I think > A dedicated WOL option on the tweaks page would be nice. This could be > automated if you know the IP address of the LMS server (the arp command > can be used to lookup the MAC address of the server). The network > interface used should also be detectable I think. > > My knowledge of Linux is rather limited (Google is my best friend) so I > am not sure if the above works. Another option would be a dropdown list > for the network interfaces and a textbox for the MAC address.
Hi kolossos4730, Thanks for the further information. ;) I think the coding should be reasonably straight forward. Testing it thoroughly on the other hand will be a problem. I'll have to dig out some old PCs and see if they have WOL. piCorePlayer already knows the LMS IP and interface, getting the MAC should be easy, I think? There will be some unforseen complication in trying to make it automatic and generic enough. :cool: regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
