[FreddyAV]

Hi

First feature suggestion post here and with that I would like to take the opportunity to say that XBMC is a marvelous piece of software! Great work!

Maybe there are more people than me that would like to have their media stored on a separate server. Some people also implement their servers so that the sleep (suspend) when not used. In such a setting it would be marvelous if the "Add media" dialog/settings could incorporate:

a wake-on-lan feature per media source where MAC is either entered or auto-discovered(?)
a time-out value before assuming that the device is sleeping and thus needing wakeing
a dialog saying "Please wait while backend is waking up" or something similar

More ideas? Did I miss something?

Cheers!

[ashlar]

The idea is good... the way I handle this is currently by sending a WOL magic packet on system resume from standby. So that when I turn on the HTPC, the server is woken up as well.

[FreddyAV]

Yes that works for some settings. More and more nowadays the focus is on power consumption. Look at the interest in / popularity of NViDIA Ion systems. In such a setting (and the one that I'm looking at) only some of the media is stored on a server (and I'm thinking of having more than one server) so I don't want my server box to wake unless there is a demand for media located on that server.

One addition to this suggestion is that the WOL information should be looked up everytime a media on a server is requested (I'm thinking library mode here, when it is not obvious which media file comes from which media source).