So I'm building a second server with the intention of sleeping my big server when I'm not using it via S3.

 

Has anyone had any joy getting a sleep proxy to wake unRAID from S3?  I could mess about with apps to send magic packets but it would be better if I could make everything wake up automatically like my macs do (using Bonjour & my Airport Extreme).

 

Since I'm still intending on having one unRAID server up and running all the time I might be able to write some primitive script to do the whole thing,  something like checking if the HTPC is up, and then checking unRAID, and sending a magic packet where appropriate.  I have a feeling that wont work well, and I'm not keen on re-inventing the wheel if I don't have to

 

TIA for any pointers or experiences anyone else has had with this sort of thing

What is your HTPC OS?

 

Either way, check my script for mounting and waking unRAID. It is designed to work on the Mac, but easily modified to work on any *nix machine.

 

I've got my HTPC set to wake unRAID up just before I get home, mount all the shares, then open iTunes.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10274.0

Plex on OS-X.

 

Scheduling wake ups would be another route I could use, so thanks for that.  I was rather hoping I could make some sort of wake-on-demand work however.

Depends on the application..  If you want to wake on demand, that is easy via WOL Widget. Otherwise, surely there would be some sort of plugin for Plex to do the same job.

 

Hope that helps.