[vdr] Re: How do you poweron your VDR Box via IR?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:55:48 +0100, nisele@t-online.de (Nikolaus Isele)
wrote:

> does anybody a idea, how to switch the VDR Box on via the Remote Control? I
> have an Irdeo IR Module with LIRC running, but i don't have any idea make
> the working with the irdeo.
> I have the Asus TUSL2 Mainboard, and i think it is possible to switch the pc
> on via the irda port. Is the Asus Irda Interface LIRC compatible?
> 
> Please tell me your ideas for this problem. Every solution ist welcome....

Ok, I have just tested the following and it works:
I had bought some Yello Power Safers to conserve power with other
devices having high standby usage. I just connected one of this to one
of my windows PCs and changed the bios setting for "state after power
failure" to on. I booted windows and stopped it with "shutdown". When
windows is down it powers off the machine. The control light of the YPS
lights up, which means it has detected a device in standby (you can set
the threshhold) and disconnects the PC totally from power within a few
seconds. Now I took any remote control, pressed a key and wonder - the
PC is powered on and boots. :) So this is ccertainly a solution which
works. 

The drawbacks are:
- The PC is turned on by any IR signal received.
- The PC cannot wakeup automagically from bios timer because it has no
  power at all.

Emil