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On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> ... I have a machine that's a |
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> MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's |
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> job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it |
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> wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son |
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> use it at times to browse the web. They are used to shutting off other |
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> computers and they sometimes make mistakes and shut this machine off |
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> so we lose recordings. |
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In the case of your particular Myth box, it might be worth looking at |
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sleep / hibernate / BIOS wake functionality, to save 20 hours' |
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electricity per day. |
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I haven't looked at this in detail, but I think that Myth can write a |
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wake up time to the BIOS, say of 5 minutes before the next scheduled |
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recording. Thus even if you wife does switch the computer off, it will |
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switch itself on again so that you don't miss your show. |
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Stroller. |
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