[linux-dvb] Re: Minimum system

[Ralf Bauer <RBauer@quark.de>]

Well, what you described is definitely a very nice system that everybody
would like to have, but there are also other aspects we should think about.

My VDR-PC consumes about 80W of electrical energy which sums up to 700 kWh/a
or about DM 250,- a year and 413 kg CO2. An additional PC would even double
those numbers.

We should also have a look at saving energy and reducing the annual cost of
such a system (you already guessed it, I'm Swabian).

If you don't use your VDR-PC also as FAX server, answering machine or
router, your machine will probably do nothing 90% of the time. It should be
pretty easy to automatically shutdown the system if it is not used to view
or record something. This would lower the standby power consumption to about
1-5 W which is about DM 15,- a year.

It is a little bit more difficult to switch on the system for a timer
recording. PC98 compliant mainboards (I am not sure about earlier models)
support a wakeup on RTC, which means we could program the wakeup time of the
next timer event into the RTC and wakeup the VDR-PC just a minute before the
recording starts. I have not seen this support in Linux yet, but this should
be easily integrated in the "hwclock" command.

Shutting down the system also reduces the noise to the time when the VDR is
used.

Ralf.


-----Original Message-----
From: Emil Naepflein [mailto:Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:14
To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Minimum system


On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 06:49:49 +0200, Clemens Kirchgatterer
<clemens@root.at> wrote:

> btw.: one day, a few weeks ago, i asked if somebody is intrested in such
> a distri ... nobody wanted it! ;-)


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