lifereinspired
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Hello,
I'm running a home theater server on a Windows 8 (not yet 8.1) laptop. General specs are Intel Core i7 quad core processor, 8gb RAM, 1tb HDD. I have it connected by wired ethernet to my router to lower chances of screwing up. The primary programs running are Plex Media Server, PlayOn & PlayLater, and I hope to add a calibre server at some point.
For the most part, things are quite stable with shut downs and restarts at a minimum. I recently replaced the battery so that short power outages would affect it (the cable modem & router are auto on when they receive power).
My concern is this. It looks like I may have to travel in the nearish future for a few weeks at a time and I'd very much like to ensure that I can use my server while I'm away. I plan to have remote desktop software for troubleshooting issues that could arise & require restarting a server, etc but I can't get around what to do if a power outage lasted longer than the battery and the laptop turned off completely. I know Windows has some built-in power management for turning on a computer at a specific time and I wondered it this could be used to make sure that at a certain time each day or night the computer was turned on. It would have to work like a true power on function (rather than toggle) as some remote controls can now do where if you press power on while the TV is off, it comes on, if you do the same while it's on, the TV stays on. Is it possible set something like this up, if not with Windows 8 then another program. If that's not possible, could something be setup to cause the laptop to go into sleep or hibernation mode when it lost power. That way it world stay in a more responsive state than hard power off. Could it either be setup to resume regular "on" function once it receives power coming to it again or could I setup an app or other software to run from either another Windows laptop or an Android device to send a wake on Lan command to bring it out of hibernation? Is this something remote desktop access software can do? I've never tried to rely on the machine for that long being away and I'm trying to setup for sorting out as many issues as possible from afar. II know I can't be the only person who has tried this and I'd appreciate any help or advice so much. Thanks!
I'm running a home theater server on a Windows 8 (not yet 8.1) laptop. General specs are Intel Core i7 quad core processor, 8gb RAM, 1tb HDD. I have it connected by wired ethernet to my router to lower chances of screwing up. The primary programs running are Plex Media Server, PlayOn & PlayLater, and I hope to add a calibre server at some point.
For the most part, things are quite stable with shut downs and restarts at a minimum. I recently replaced the battery so that short power outages would affect it (the cable modem & router are auto on when they receive power).
My concern is this. It looks like I may have to travel in the nearish future for a few weeks at a time and I'd very much like to ensure that I can use my server while I'm away. I plan to have remote desktop software for troubleshooting issues that could arise & require restarting a server, etc but I can't get around what to do if a power outage lasted longer than the battery and the laptop turned off completely. I know Windows has some built-in power management for turning on a computer at a specific time and I wondered it this could be used to make sure that at a certain time each day or night the computer was turned on. It would have to work like a true power on function (rather than toggle) as some remote controls can now do where if you press power on while the TV is off, it comes on, if you do the same while it's on, the TV stays on. Is it possible set something like this up, if not with Windows 8 then another program. If that's not possible, could something be setup to cause the laptop to go into sleep or hibernation mode when it lost power. That way it world stay in a more responsive state than hard power off. Could it either be setup to resume regular "on" function once it receives power coming to it again or could I setup an app or other software to run from either another Windows laptop or an Android device to send a wake on Lan command to bring it out of hibernation? Is this something remote desktop access software can do? I've never tried to rely on the machine for that long being away and I'm trying to setup for sorting out as many issues as possible from afar. II know I can't be the only person who has tried this and I'd appreciate any help or advice so much. Thanks!
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