VDR User schrieb:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
At some point the shutdown mechanism apparently became "rocket science" and I decided to no longer touch it (especially since I don't even use it myself).
;)
Personally I don't see any real reason to ever shut down/wakeup feature. Maybe that's useful for guys running VDR on laptops or old pc's that consume a lot of power(?). I only use VDR in my living room as my main tv/media source, and on a test box for messing around with but that's it. I don't actually watch tv on a computer monitor.
Well, i can wait the 8 seconds (well with Bios maybe 15 sec) the machine needs to boot. I don't know what you consider a lot of power (here 60-100W depending on apps running - anyway it doesn't matter where you put the bar), but what you say sounds like i don't care about environment/ other people, which is provocative and sounds ignorant for some people at the place where i live.
There are 8-10 hours where i sleep and another 8-10 hours where i am at work, which is at least 16 hours of 3W power consumption - i don't need the VDR running at that time, as long as my recordings are taken care off. If i should need it from external, i can wake it up by WOL.
Think about it !
Anyway lets keep any further discussion about that off-list.
Kind Regards
Steffen