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i am not a programmer. i have a suggestion for a python script for anyone who think they could/want to do it.

in my case i have my movies pictures and music on a server to stream things to xbmc. a server that is in a place far from the tv where xbmc is. sometimes i need to reboot or turn on this server.
i believe a python script doing this from within xbmc would be great. i tried google to find example scripts but didn't get far so anyone up for the challenge try it and share it it worx.

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[senergy]

wouldnt a wake on lan work to turn the server on. then all you would need todo is try and access your movies, the server would turn o, 5 mins later your movies would be available.

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i've tried that and my filserver doesn't seem to care... but still reboot and shutdown would be useful i think.

[san9jay]

rebooting would be easy enough if you dont mind running a small script on your pc. starting up the pc using wake on lan would be more difficult

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oh i don't mind that if it brings me the functionality i want and don't affect the fileserver performance.
is it similar to what is talked about in this thread?
edit**
ok so i found the example script they're talking about here but i have no clue of what to do with it:

# rebootserver.py - reboots a remove server
import win32security
import win32api
import sys
import time
from ntsecuritycon import *

def adjustprivilege(priv, enable = 1):
   # get the process token.
   flags = token_adjust_privileges | token_query
   htoken = win32security.openprocesstoken(win32api.getcurrentprocess(), flags)
   # get the id for the system shutdown privilege.
   id = win32security.lookupprivilegevalue(none, priv)
   # now obtain the privilege for this process.
   # create a list of the privileges to be added.
   if enable:
       newprivileges = [(id, se_privilege_enabled)]
   else:
       newprivileges = [(id, 0)]
   # and make the adjustment.
   win32security.adjusttokenprivileges(htoken, 0, newprivileges)

def rebootserver(message="server rebooting", timeout=30, bforce=0, breboot=1):
   adjustprivilege(se_shutdown_name)
   try:
       win32api.initiatesystemshutdown(none, message, timeout, bforce, breboot)
   finally:
       # now we remove the privilege we just added.
       adjustprivilege(se_shutdown_name, 0)

def abortreboot():
   adjustprivilege(se_shutdown_name)
   try:
       win32api.abortsystemshutdown(none)
   finally:
       # now we remove the privilege we just added.
       adjustprivilege(se_shutdown_name, 0)
           
if =='':
       message = "this server is pretending to reboot\r\n"
       message = message + "the shutdown will stop in 10 seconds"
       rebootserver(message)
       print "sleeping for 10 seconds"
       time.sleep(10)
       print "aborting shutdown"
       abortreboot()

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[darkie]

for wake on lan you could try the next script (didn't test it on my pc)

import xbmc, xbmcgui
import struct, socket

def wakeonlan(ethernet_address):

 # construct a six-byte hardware address

 addr_byte = ethernet_address.split(':')
 hw_addr = struct.pack('bbbbbb', int(addr_byte[0], 16),
   int(addr_byte[1], 16),
   int(addr_byte[2], 16),
   int(addr_byte[3], 16),
   int(addr_byte[4], 16),
   int(addr_byte[5], 16))

 # build the wake-on-lan "magic packet"...

 msg = '\xff' * 6 + hw_addr * 16

 # ...and send it to the broadcast address using udp

 s = socket.socket(socket.af_inet, socket.sock_dgram)
 s.setsockopt(socket.sol_socket, socket.so_broadcast, 1)
 s.sendto(msg, ('<broadcast>', 7))
 s.close()

# example use
wakeonlan('00:03:34:53:6c:7a')

as for the example script,

instead of

if =='':
      message = "this server is pretending to reboot\r\n"
      message = message + "the shutdown will stop in 10 seconds"
      rebootserver(message)
      print "sleeping for 10 seconds"
      time.sleep(10)
      print "aborting shutdown"
      abortreboot()

you will have to create a socket, bind it for example to port 4567, listen on that port for incoming connections and wait for the xbox to connect to send a shutdown packet.