Re: Rebooting PC automatically when it hangs?

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

He did a "burn in" for a bout a week before he went without
problem
(typical).  Will know more when he gets home.

M.


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Thorn <chris.thorn@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Rebooting PC automatically when it hangs?


> 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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