[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:35:16 +1300, you wrote:

>>
>> Some people like to leave their systems on 24/7 but I like to save the
>> planet :) so I have mine set up to power down after I log off and power
>> up again when myth needs to record something.
>>
>
>I've never manager to get this working as I'd like.. basically if its after
>say 10pm and nothing is *being recorded or played* I'd like the machine to
>shutdown and then always wake up at say 8am (or earlier if required for a
>recording).. this would save 10 hours of ontime a day and keep the mrs happy
>about having to start the machine...
>
>I should really have another attempt at it... it would be quite a power
>saving...
>
>Jason Taylor

Whether the wakeups work or not seems to depend on what motherboard
and BIOS you have.  They mostly say they support the scheduled wakeup
feature, but only some actually work.  I tried it with my MythTV box,
and it never woke up even when I was manually setting the wakeup time
in the BIOS settings.