[mythtvnz] Wireless Keyboard / Trackball

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Wireless Keyboard / Trackball


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Wireless Keyboard / Trackball
>
>
>>> does your frontend have a power switch? I find that to be the best way to turn it on.
>
>> Seems not when it comes to turning it off though:

>touche, but you were talking about powering on. Powering off is easy
via a menu entry linked to a script which runs shutdown

I've since found there are WOL android market apps that will do WOL for a number of devices from an android phone.

Sorry Nick, I've yet to see a SleepOnLAN app there.  I find the Ubuntu Suspend function to work really well, I might see if I can 
figure out how to add it as a new option in the existing FE mythtv turn off options of shutdown mythtv or shutdown the whole box. 
Suspend the box also seems a sensible option to have here.  From what I've seen so far its probably just adding another menu item 
into some XML somewhere and hooking the suspend to this.

The slowest thing about resuming I find to be waiting for the DHCP server to do its stuff and finish the eth0 connection, takes 
about 2 seconds to resume and 10 seconds to get the eth0 connection again.  I suppose using a static IP would speed that 
up....however I moved away from statics a long time ago....