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A MythTV Remote Control without LIRC - Power Switch Addon

Overview This is a little add-on for my MythTV remote control. It adds a hardware power switch feature. This means that you can switch the PC on even if it is completely shut down. There is just one condition, which is that the remote control receiver must have power, supplied through the USB port. On most modern mainboards, this is an option in the BIOS settings. The additional hardware is

A PC Watchdog

Project Features Automatically resets a crashed, frozen Linux PC Simple Uses a cheap USB-to-serial adapter Introduction For several years I have been using a MythTV Linux server to record television shows. It works very well and I like it a lot. It has one major problem though: Sometimes it locks up. I suspect that this happens when it changes channels and signals are weak (e.g. due