Option for Power Management on Vu Duo with BlackHole Image ???

Hi Carmine,

Blackhole is at version 2.0.3 now bud, would be worth your while updating the image. There is a plugin now on blackhole for "autoshutdown" not in front of my box now to check but I think you can use this to reboot your box at a set time, if not you could use the cron manager.

Another option as mentioned by mckee25 is to use cron..

FTP into your box & add this line:

30 6 * * *    /sbin/reboot

**Reboots the box at 6.30am every morning**

to this file:

/etc/cron/root

off topic ish) i know but as this is about auto shutdown etc i thought i'd chip in. In ViX ( yes i know here he goes again about that flaming ViX image when the thread is about BH, but bear with me ).

In ViX you have a feature called power timers, this plugin was specifically rewritten by andy to provide such a function and much much more, you can set timers from here for auto shutdown, reboot, power up at any time.

For example you want the receiver to go into deepstandby but want it to wake again for the EPG ang again go back into deepstandyby afterwards then awake for breakfast every day,

you set the power timers to go into deepstandby at say 01:11, then wake at 04:00 for the EPG to download at 04:15 then again go back into deepstandby at 04:25 and once again wake at say 07:00 in time for the kids to get up and get ready for school. Now i'm vastly simplifying things here but i hope to be ale to show just a little of what is possible with dedicated embedded features rather than tacked on plugins in a image.

Perfect, does it have to be downloaded from feeds as I could not find it on my ViX (after a very quick look). I would much rather a tried & tested feature rather than using cron & perhaps impeding other scripts or process's?

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Perfect, does it have to be downloaded from feeds as I could not find it on my ViX (after a very quick look). I would much rather a tried & tested feature rather than using cron & perhaps impeding other scripts or process's?

i'm not near a receiver to check the exact path and this laptop is just about to implode so forgive me if i just vanish all of a sudden but it's built rite into the image as standard like andy's other pet projects.

I have to give that guy his due he's a bloody coding genius, he literally dreams of new features to be added to the image when he has the time.

He has over the last few months re-written timers / power timers, zap timers etc all into a single plugin.
EPG functionality, Graphical EPG, allowing you to pull up the bouquet rite there in the middle of the graphical EPG
Timeshift and Auto timers have also been merged into one single function allowing you to seamlessly record multiple events in a session and have those events saved as individual recordings instead of one large timeshift file.

again i'm vastly over simplifying things but i just can not explain in the rite words the work andy puts into ViX to make it in my opinion the only image worth using.

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Thanks pheonix didnt know that always good to learn, but really dont want tochange blackhole image i think there the best looking ones, i had a vix image last year and didnt like look of it lol

No worries, and please dont think that i'm bagging BH as thats not my intention, i know a lot of the BH team and have a massive amount of respect for their work, just offering up a alternative solution.

The thing is we have a good range of images to choose from and what suits me is not necessarily the same as what would be best for some one else, but it is nice to have that choice.

You have autoshutdown on BH and you also have set sleeptimer on BH ,,
its a matter of adjusting them to your wants/needs,
you also have cron manager (blue-blue) where again you adjust/add to your needs ,
either a predefined command to execute or a custom command..
it´s a matter of trying things out and posting your results for others to follow ;)