Can A200 wake my NAS up?

[ejhuzy]

I use an unRAID media server to store all my movies, music and pictures. My NAS is set up to go to sleep (S3 mode) when the drives have been spun down for a certain amount of time.

Once the NAS is a sleep, a magic packet can be sent to wake it up. I'm wondering if my PCH A200 can be set up somehow to first send a magic packet and then access the share?

[scummybear]

Not sure about your NAS setup, but is it possible to set it to Wake on Lan? That way network traffic could wake it up when needed.

Like I said though, I am not familiar with you setup or power options on your unit.

Hope it can help you out.

[halfelite]

WoL packets are not supported. It should spin up sleeping drives though.

[ejhuzy]

(08-18-2011 02:59 AM)halfelite Wrote:  WoL packets are not supported. It should spin up sleeping drives though.

Thanks for the reply. That's exactly the behavior I'm seeing. I've found several threads on the unRAID forums on how to implement this. There's also a thread here that talks about how to manually send a magic packet to the unRAID box.

Looks like I have some work to figure this out.

[nuke12]

The 200 series does not directly support WoL but it can be implemented through HTML and scripts.

I use my C-200 to put my software raid to sleep and wake it up.
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=47291

[ejhuzy]

(08-18-2011 04:37 PM)nuke12 Wrote:  The 200 series does not directly support WoL but it can be implemented through HTML and scripts.

I use my C-200 to put my software raid to sleep and wake it up.
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=47291

Nuke, thanks for replying. I read your thread and let me see if I have this correct.

- You have PCH apps running off a USB drive.
- When your PCH boots up the index.htm
- From that index.html there's a "action" that you can wake up the NAS with.
- Once done waking up NAS, you can jump to the Jukebox of choice.

So, it seems your approach (which is really nice) is to have a menu appear on the PCH at boot up. Is it possible to always run the wake up at boot up and then go to my network share index.html?

[nuke12]

(08-18-2011 05:07 PM)ejhuzy Wrote:  So, it seems your approach (which is really nice) is to have a menu appear on the PCH at boot up. Is it possible to always run the wake up at boot up and then go to my network share index.html?

Sure you could do that but that would mean the PCH is fully powered off (not just sleeping) and you would run the WoL command from the start_app.sh script.

My PCH is always sleeping or on. Only now an then do I truly power it off.

[ejhuzy]

(08-18-2011 07:00 PM)nuke12 Wrote:  

(08-18-2011 05:07 PM)ejhuzy Wrote:  So, it seems your approach (which is really nice) is to have a menu appear on the PCH at boot up. Is it possible to always run the wake up at boot up and then go to my network share index.html?

Sure you could do that but that would mean the PCH is fully powered off (not just sleeping) and you would run the WoL command from the start_app.sh script.

My PCH is always sleeping or on. Only now an then do I truly power it off.

I got in the habit of always turning my PCH off because when I put it to sleep and wake up I was losing audio (PCH wouldn't play any audio). Maybe the latest firmware fixes that (I haven't updated the FW in over a year).

So it seems that I could use the start_app.sh script to send out the WoL magic packet AND I could do the index.html thing like you did for more manual operations. That would be the best of both worlds.

I've been poking around, but can't find any info on CSI. Where's the best place to learn about CSI, Apps, etc? My questions are:

1) Where does CSI run? On my windows PC or on the NMT itself?
2) Can I run Apps without any local storage in the NMT? What about just a USB flash drive, is that enough?

Unrelated, what's everybody using for a jukebox these days? Eversion, NMT, or YAMJ?