Hi,
Darren Merritt wrote:
Hi,
Seems it's possible since kernel 2.6.x but from my reading, a lot of people have trouble with it. I believe the idea is that if you can setup a key/combination to operate a suspend from a keyboard, then somehow you would hope to map that command to the remote.
For keyboard, mouse, serial port it is trivial via /proc/acpi/wakeup. But for our case we should have a dvb (pci) card that allow to keep the remote device active when we shut down the computer and to send a wakeup even. So I fear it is card specific and even could need some driver code to activate this feature.
Regards,
Matthieu
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:14:22PM +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
For keyboard, mouse, serial port it is trivial via /proc/acpi/wakeup. But for our case we should have a dvb (pci) card that allow to keep the remote device active when we shut down the computer and to send a wakeup even. So I fear it is card specific and even could need some driver code to activate this feature.
The cx23882 that is used at least in budget DVB-T cards has some GPIO lines, one of which typically is connected to the infrared receiver. Since the pulses from the remote control unit will be decoded by the driver (in Linux 2.6, it would be cx88-input.c for this chip), there is no way for the hardware to detect if the Power key was pressed. I would assume that the situation is similar with other cards featuring a remote control unit.
Waking on any pulse from the infrared receiver module would not make any sense, since the receiver will deliver false pulses every now and then.
For what it is worth, I have built a simple microcontroller circuit that sends a Wake-on-LAN event when the Power key is pressed. The prototype is connected to the cable of the infrared receiver module. The next version will be a small circuit board that will be attached to the PCI card. I should get the board milled soon.
My firmware will even signal the PC if it was powered on by remote, but receiving that information requires a patch to the kernel driver. (If I were able to use LinuxBIOS, I'd possibly deduce the source of the power-on event from the chipset of the motherboard.)
My wake-on-remote circuit and firmware are available at http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/electronics/worc5/. Note that the upcoming daughterboard will have the I/O pins connected in a slightly different order, to allow the microcontroller to be programmed in-circuit while the computer is powered on. I will of course update the page as soon as I have assembled and tested the daughterboard.
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