2014-08-27, 22:52
Hi everyone,
Let me introduce myself I am from Belgium and new to the forum. Tough I was a XMBC user on my soft modded xbox a few years ago.
I have a Windows 7 computer with a few terra of media in my room, and a XMBCbuntu machine in the living room downstairs. My little sisters 10 and 12 are not allowed to enter my room or touch my computer, but they always want see things stored on my computer. So my computer needs to turn on automatically when they want to stream something when I am not around. This way my whole family can watch content from my PC without having to touch it.
When i use the android app 'Fing' my computer wakes up fine when it is completely turned off or in sleep/hibernate. I also tried different phones and different apps they all boot up both PC's.
PC specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-950 Processor (8M Cache, 3.07 GHz)
MOBO: ASUS Sabertooth X58
RAM: Vengeance 6GB Triple Channel DDR3,
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6900[/quote]
HDD: 160GB SSD - 8TB storage.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
XBMCbuntu specs:
Model: HP Compaq dc7900
Mobo: 82Q45
CPU: E8400 3.0 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache
RAM: 4 GB DDR2/800Mhz
GPU: Onboard.
HDD: 150GB
OS: XMBCbunutu - 13.2 Git:0f3db05 (Compiled Aug 17 2014)
So the question is what do I need to do to get XBMC to boot my computer(server) up?
I already did this: 'Settings → System → Power saving → Try to wake remote servers on access' but nothing happens.
I know there is a wiki page about it but its not very informative it does not even say where the 'wakeonlan.xml' gets stored or how to edit it. After searching Google I found that it was stored in user data, so I searched where I could find that as well... The wiki page told me it could be found in '~/.xbmc/userdata/' not sure what I had to do with that line since I barely use Linux. So I switched from XBMC to XBMCbuntu 'Start > Accessories > File manager' and typed in '~/.xbmc/userdata/' Hooray! I found the 'wakeonlan.xml' file... Now what? I cant open it except for with chrome there it shows my MAC address and my hosts PC name correctly.
Then I downloaded the 'Advanced Wake On Lan' add-on.
And put in the MAC adress of my server and the PC name restarted my XBMCbuntu machine and turned of my host PC. But when booting It gave me this error 'XBMC must be run as root for ping-based host-up checks to work. You can disable the "host-up check via ping" in the add-on.' and disabling 'host-up check via ping' does not change a thing of course.
So I started searching how I add XBMC to root but I only found how I add my user to the root group how I login as root but after typing commands in the terminal I feel like a blind sheep following instructions.
So could someone please help me out here?
Thanks in advance!
Let me introduce myself I am from Belgium and new to the forum. Tough I was a XMBC user on my soft modded xbox a few years ago.
I have a Windows 7 computer with a few terra of media in my room, and a XMBCbuntu machine in the living room downstairs. My little sisters 10 and 12 are not allowed to enter my room or touch my computer, but they always want see things stored on my computer. So my computer needs to turn on automatically when they want to stream something when I am not around. This way my whole family can watch content from my PC without having to touch it.
When i use the android app 'Fing' my computer wakes up fine when it is completely turned off or in sleep/hibernate. I also tried different phones and different apps they all boot up both PC's.
PC specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-950 Processor (8M Cache, 3.07 GHz)
MOBO: ASUS Sabertooth X58
RAM: Vengeance 6GB Triple Channel DDR3,
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6900[/quote]
HDD: 160GB SSD - 8TB storage.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
XBMCbuntu specs:
Model: HP Compaq dc7900
Mobo: 82Q45
CPU: E8400 3.0 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache
RAM: 4 GB DDR2/800Mhz
GPU: Onboard.
HDD: 150GB
OS: XMBCbunutu - 13.2 Git:0f3db05 (Compiled Aug 17 2014)
So the question is what do I need to do to get XBMC to boot my computer(server) up?
I already did this: 'Settings → System → Power saving → Try to wake remote servers on access' but nothing happens.
I know there is a wiki page about it but its not very informative it does not even say where the 'wakeonlan.xml' gets stored or how to edit it. After searching Google I found that it was stored in user data, so I searched where I could find that as well... The wiki page told me it could be found in '~/.xbmc/userdata/' not sure what I had to do with that line since I barely use Linux. So I switched from XBMC to XBMCbuntu 'Start > Accessories > File manager' and typed in '~/.xbmc/userdata/' Hooray! I found the 'wakeonlan.xml' file... Now what? I cant open it except for with chrome there it shows my MAC address and my hosts PC name correctly.
Quote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Wake_on_lan
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Userdata
Then I downloaded the 'Advanced Wake On Lan' add-on.
And put in the MAC adress of my server and the PC name restarted my XBMCbuntu machine and turned of my host PC. But when booting It gave me this error 'XBMC must be run as root for ping-based host-up checks to work. You can disable the "host-up check via ping" in the add-on.' and disabling 'host-up check via ping' does not change a thing of course.
So I started searching how I add XBMC to root but I only found how I add my user to the root group how I login as root but after typing commands in the terminal I feel like a blind sheep following instructions.
Quote:http://forum.xbmc.org/reputation.php?uid=50237
So could someone please help me out here?
Thanks in advance!