WOL backend

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Enhancement request/suggestion.

Having configured WOL on my frontends, I do not need to power them on manually 
- WAF has increased!

Now - can we put the MAC address of the backend in somewhere, so that it can be 
woken remotely. 

1. When wake fronted is selected, a magic packet can also be sent to the 
backend  so it wakes ready for the frontend to talk to. This would be more 
efficient than waking the backend and waiting for it to send a magic packet to 
the backend before communication can start.

2. Backend can be woken for streaming to the phone without having to wake it 
from another machine (backend is in the loft).
This would entail adding a mythshudown -l somewhere when mdd is 
streaming/connected to phone, and then a mythshutdown -u when finished (or 
crashed!) to allow shutdown. 'mythshutdown -l's stack, so this would even work 
when streaming to 2 or more devices.

Thinking about it, does mythdroid/mdd currently stop backend shutting down if 
streaming is happening? Not checked, as backend is locked at the mo. Will find 
out and look into sorting that ;-)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by minidroi...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2011 at 12:32

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I can WOL the backend, by setting it up as a frontend ;-)
Looking into rest of it.

Original comment by minidroi...@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2011 at 12:33

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We probably need to be able to wake backends. Our backend connection should be 
enough to prevent untimely shutdown but that needs work to ensure that we don't 
keep a backend awake unnecessarily. We'll likely wake backends when we attempt 
to establish the backend connection since we won't necessarily want to wake a 
frontend at all / at the same time. 

Original comment by foobum on 4 Dec 2011 at 10:38

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by foobum on 4 Dec 2011 at 10:39