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SrvrPowerCtrl plugin Windows help

SrvrPowerCtrlSrvrPowerCtrl's job is to help you control power states (sleeping / waking / etc.) on your SqueezeCenter server hardware. To do that, SrvrPowerCtrl needs to be able use some “helper” applications on your server. These applications differ according to which operating system you are using on the SqueezeCenter server. But whatever your server setup, you'll need to do a certain amount of manual tweaking of those helper applications and SrvrPowerCtrl's settings in order to get things working as they ought. Hopefully, these instructions will help you get everything set “just right.”



Windows setup instructions

To finish installing SrvrPowerCtrl for windows, you'll need to download SCPowerTool.zip from the same place you downloaded SrvrPowerCtrl. Unzip the file and copy SCPowerTool.exe and StartHidden.exe to somewhere in your path, e.g. C:\Windows\System32.

SCPowerTool.exe is called by SrvrPowerCtrl and is the utility that does the actual “heavy lifting” in terms of shutting-down / suspending / hibernating the system. StartHidden.exe is a semi-tricky application that allows SrvrPowerCtrl to get SqueezeCenter to restart itself.

So, we need to make sure that the SCPowerTool.exe command operates on your system.

With Windows XP, try:

Start→Run: cmd /C start /B SCPowerTool.exe --standby --wakeup=-60

On Windows Vista, try: Start, type cmd in the search box, but do not press ENTER. Instead, right click on cmd.exe in the search results area and click Run as Administrator. Now type into the DOS box:

SCPowerTool.exe --standby --wakeup=-60

That command should send your system into standby and then wake it back up again after 60 seconds.

Assuming that that command worked, you can reboot your server or restart the SqueezeCenter service to activate the plugin.

 


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