[intertan]

since my unraid server is only for xbmc and the htpc I would like to see if I can set something up.

what I am looking for
when my htpc turns on unraid starts up
when I am done doing what I need (movie watching, adding movies,ect) it shuts down unraid.

[jhsrennie]

To start the unraid server you could create a XBMC autoexec.py script with a WakeOnLan call, or get Windows to run a script at startup to run some suitable WakeOnLan applet. If your HTPC is using Windows you can set a LogOff/Shutdown script that Windows runs when it's being logged off or shut down. having said that, I'm not sure how you'd send unraid a shutdown signal.

JR

[kricker]

I had a vb script once to do that. To do it from XBMC you'd need a python script/plugin that sent unraid the proper shutdown commands over a telnet connection. Currently my Unraid sleep after x minutes of no disk or network activity. You can find the info for that in the Unraid forums. Then you can do as JR said and send a WOL command when you enter XBMC.