Re: Rebooting PC automatically when it hangs?

["Chris Thorn" <chris.thorn@xxxxxxx>]

The settings havn't been set for sleep mode or low power mode in the
control
pael when not used for a while  have they. I know this causes problems on
my
PC when I used it for a HA controller....Worth checking


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ukha_D@Egroups. Com" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 25 May 2000 13:48
Subject: [ukha_d] Rebooting PC automatically when it hangs?


> A friend is on holidays and has left HomeSeer running on his PC to
give
the
> house that "lived In" look while he's away.  His PC emails
me every night
> with it's latest IP address so I can log on and check the house status
for
> him.
>
> However, late last week the emails stopped.  He rang a neighbour (who
holds
> a key) and got them to reboot his PC.  Things were OK for another few
days
> but the email has stopped again.
>
> The HA PC is an AT case and motherboard so I assume a simple appliance
> module would give the ability to turn it off and on.  What I want to
know
is
> does anyone have a clever system that automatically detect that the HA
PC
> has hung and reboot it?
>
> What I'm thinking of is an internal macro running in the CM12U that
would
> send a message to the PC every few minutes.  If it didn't get some
kind of
> predetermined reply then it would realise the PC wasn't responding and
turn
> it off and back on.
>
> Apart from anything this whole episode has been a good advert for
> stand-alone hardware systems like Comfort and HomeVision.
>
> Thanks
>
> M.
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