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I've never had any issues with stand-by on Windows.
Windows in particular is notorious as of late for brutally draining the battery while Sleeping[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
€0.49 / kWh is an insanely high price for electricity. Here in the US in Cali, $0.32 / kWh is considered a steep price. I've heard the price in Oregon is $̶0̶.̶0̶2̶ ̶/̶ ̶k̶W̶h̶ $0.20 / kWh. What gives.. why can't electricity be delivered less expensively / more economically in Germany? Edit: Thanks for the corrections regarding Oregon, makes me feel a little better about the situations elsewhere. :)
I'm definitely less concerned about the cost of running a machine 24/7 here than I was back in the UK.
[0] - https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/el...
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About 41 euro cents per day->57€/140 3360 is the number of hours in 140 days.
You are, in fact, correct. I have no idea why I converted 140 days into hours... Still, my point remains unchanged: I, at least, value reliability and uptime more than ~43 euro cents.
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Windows in particular is notorious as of late for brutally draining the battery while Sleeping[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
S3/S4 sleep works just fine after Windows XP. S0ix is difficult but only implemented on laptops.
Interesting solution. I wonder if you could make the 'wake up' a bit more advanced. Run tcpdump or something similar on the Pi, with a filter set for inbound packets to the media server on ports that Plex or Time Machine uses. If it sees those packets, send the WoL magic packet. This might not work if your switch does proper port isolation - but you could perhaps add port mirroring or something like that.
Reverse proxy on the Pi? If a request comes in for the server and x minutes have elapsed since last activity/WoL, send a new WoL. I'm a little out of my wheelhouse though. Maybe that would only work for HTTP which will not cover Time Machine? Does Time Machine run on a schedule? Add a cron job (whatever the Mac equivalent is) to send a WoL ~1min beforehand?
I believe on x86 the BIOS supports setting a timer for self-wakeup. The OS can tell the BIOS "I'm going to sleep. Pull me out of sleep if the RTC passes this datetime."
Link, in case you care: https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian
I have a "NAS", which is really an enormous desktop tower crammed full of hard drives. It auto-wakes once per day, pulls backups from my various servers all over the place, then returns to sleep.
I wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really wanted. Link, in case you care: https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian I have a "NAS", which is really an enormous desktop tower crammed full of hard drives. It auto-wakes once per day, pulls backups from my various servers all over the plac…
Interesting solution. I wonder if you could make the 'wake up' a bit more advanced. Run tcpdump or something similar on the Pi, with a filter set for inbound packets to the media server on ports that Plex or Time Machine uses. If it sees those packets, send the WoL magic packet. This might not work if your switch does proper port isolation - but you could perhaps add port mirroring or something like that.
Reverse proxy on the Pi? If a request comes in for the server and x minutes have elapsed since last activity/WoL, send a new WoL. I'm a little out of my wheelhouse though. Maybe that would only work for HTTP which will not cover Time Machine? Does Time Machine run on a schedule? Add a cron job (whatever the Mac equivalent is) to send a WoL ~1min beforehand?
Depending on what Pi you're using, it's networking is over USB, and so is quite performance constrained.
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You are, in fact, correct. I have no idea why I converted 140 days into hours... Still, my point remains unchanged: I, at least, value reliability and uptime more than ~43 euro cents.
And doing this is not going to largely affect the energy usage of the EU - at least, in comparison to, say, Dell putting Platinum rated PSUs in their workstations and AMD making good server chips that are twice as efficient at the same performance point as Intel's chips.