shutdown on inactivity

I think I was that person.

Maybe I'll give a script a go sometime this week if I get bored at work.

How are you connecting with XBMC to watch movies? DLNA,CIFS,NFS?

Could tie off cues from one of those protocols, if no active connections. Also if you have disk spin-down enabled, could feed from that as well, if disks have been spun down fo X hours, shutdown.

chirpa wrote:
I think I was that person. Maybe I'll give a script a go sometime this week if I get bored at work. How are you connecting with XBMC to watch movies? DLNA,CIFS,NFS? Could tie off cues from one of those protocols, if no active connections. Also if you have disk spin-down enabled, could feed from that as well, if disks have been spun down fo X hours, shutdown.

Hello,

I use an XBMC mod called "Advanced Wake-On-LAN". Basically in XBMC i have a custom menu called "NAS Movies" and it displays the list of the movies on my NAS. With this mod the WOL packet is automatically sent to my NAS as soon as i open the this menu, sends a ping and waits until the NAS answers to display the menu.

I have tried to find a way to automatically wake the NAS when i try to access a movie stored on it but i dont think it is possible...

Would greatly appreciate the script ! Just tell me how much you'd charge for it and i can pay through paypal

Just installed a DuoV2, was looking for this feature too. Man, is this thread timely ...

If I had $.02 to add, i think any such script should be tied to disk inactivity to cast the widest net. My particular use case is a Logitech slim server accessed by a Squeezebox radio, which supports WOL. WOL can turn it on, I'd love to see if there were a way to then turn it off automatically when I stop listening. That would be perfect.

Also, ideally, though I don't use it, on power off, the power state should return to obeying whatever shutdown timers the user has set (unlike, apparently, how the dashboard works when powering down ...).

I'd be willing to kick some Paypal your way too. I'm surprised that Netgear didn't seem to complete this feature.

Can someone give me SSH to a v2 unit?

Still no solution :(

Fredmertz found a solution but not for my unit. And there's some bug with it.

I'm still looking, and still willing to pay a reasonable price for it.

I'm also wondering if there is a way to send some kind of "magic packet" to shut down the NAS ? Maybe a workaround would be to set eventghost to send a command to shutdown the NAS when my HTPC goes to sleep

There's no such "magic packet" built into WoL. It would create an obvious denial-of-service attack if there were.

StephenB wrote:
There's no such "magic packet" built into WoL. It would create an obvious denial-of-service attack if there were.

So there's no way to automate the shutdown process from my computer ?

I thought maybe there could be a way to create a .bat file or autoit file to automatically connect through ssh and send a shutdown command, then use the script with eventghost to map it to my universal remote or trigger it everytime the htpc is shut down.

I was only responding to the "magic packet" question - there is none (if there were it would be a huge vulnerability that Malware could exploit).

You could put something together yourself.

Still no solution for this ? :(

You can cobble together your own solution.

Here's an example. You'd need to have some sort of Linux process knowledge. It's not hard to learn. (Really)
http://cubiq.org/shutting-down-linux-if-a-specific-process-is-idle

Also, here's a brief guide on how to tell if a Linux process is idle.
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.ca/2009/03/finding-processs-idle-time-on-linux-and.html

So with that, in theory you can put together a script that ends in
# shutdown -now

to shut down the NAS.