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

[Usenet-372114@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de(Emil Naepflein)  02.02.02 09:31

Once upon a time Emil Naepflein shaped the electrons to say...

>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.

Don't switch the PC, switch a small plug-In 12V powersupply
(Preferable a good one, with enough iron (see ELV "Oeko") 
or a switching one, don't use those 2EUR Taiwan crap!)
Wire the 12V to "Ring" in the right way and 
set BIOS to "Wake on Ring" too.


The disadvantage is, that some flourecent lamps triggers the power 
saver too. And i have heard that some refrigrator may trigger
the switch too.
But those problems are avoidable and depends on the quality
of the switch.




Sometime ago some asked to make an USB-IR Sensor.
That can be used to power on too! With a specific IR-Control.