Wake-on-lan support for TViX players?

[fvanslooten]

Do TViX players support Wake-on-lan?

[Hi-Jack]

Nope, they don't as far as i know.

[waffles]

Any idea if this could be implemented? This would really be a great feature for me, as my server is in the 2nd floor with my HT and TVIX being in the basement....

[rvdm]

This is an old thread, but I'm having the same question, so I'd rather revive it, instead of a new one ;)

I store my content on a co-located server in a remote datacenter. Every night I want to synchronise the content to a tvix m-6500 on my home network. It should wake up, sync, and go back to sleep.
There are a few small linux boxes present, that can run scripts to send commands (a wake-on-lan packet, or something else) over the network at some designated time.

The problem is, the M-6500 does have a wake-on-lan supporting chipset. On the M-6500's logic board, the wake on lan pins/signals seem unused, but I'm not sure of this.
I either want to:
- wire the wake-on-lan pins
- find out how the tvix responds to infrared commands from the remote while asleep, and somehow wire into that

As an ultimate fallback solution, I can always wire the on/off switch (with a small circuit) to a nearby wrt54g's GPIO pins, but I'd rather have the tvix wake independently.

Did anybody do some hardware-hacking on his/her tvix (particularly the M-6500) ? Any pointers to avoid double research?

[Sailor]

A query on the OpenTVIX forum might help - or go to Badeip's site from there. Badeip has done most of the reverse engineering of the TViX with his Open TVIX firmware and I think has accessed the remote command area.

Alternately, I've seen references in the past to a "wireless to IR" remote which could extend the range of the TViX's IR remote - a la the Bose sound systems wireless remotes.

If you find an option, post it - I'd also be interested.

[rvdm]

Hi,

A query on the OpenTVIX forum might help - or go to Badeip's site from there. Badeip has done most of the reverse engineering of the TViX with his Open TVIX firmware and I think has accessed the remote command area.

Alternately, I've seen references in the past to a "wireless to IR" remote which could extend the range of the TViX's IR remote - a la the Bose sound systems wireless remotes.

If you find an option, post it - I'd also be interested.

Badeip's forum is unresponsive, but I haven't tried the opentvix forum yet.

I've taken a look at badeip's firmware, and the stuff he's done with the IR/remote commands. Unfortunately badeip's modifications don't help with what I'm trying to do, as there doesn't seem to be 'standalone' software in the firmware (either badeip's or the official ones) that deals with IR in standby, or waking up from sleep states.
As far as I gather now, 'waking up from sleep' by IR commands, is a separate process, invisible to the linux install.
My wording is off by the way, as the tvix doesn't sleep, but shuts down. Another option would be to modify the tvix kernel to support real sleep states, but I'd rather not go there :)

Thanks!