The use case is following:

I’d like to turn off my server at night. Sometimes I stop at 12, sometimes at 1 or 2. If I could ask “is someone watching?” And it returns false, I could postpone the shutdown.

The current solution is to always turn off at 2 and turn on at 7.

How do you guys handle the situation?

  • mmmmmsoup@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    Just curious, why do you turn it off at night? Mine only uses ~2 watts when idling

    Edit; more like 7 watts but still pretty good

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      5 months ago

      2W is insane. I wonder how much it actually drains from the wall.

      My server idles at 30-35W and turning it off for 6 hours at night (cheaper electricity) would save like 4€ a year. Its cheap here tho

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        5 months ago

        Ok so I did some testing, from the wall it’s about 7 watts idle. I wonder where that extra 5 is coming from, oh well still pretty good!

        Sleeping it’s less than 1 watt, so I might see if I can let it sleep at night somehow

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          5 months ago

          I wonder where that extra 5 is coming from

          Most likely PSU efficiency because they are bad on super low power. Still insane, 7W is nothing

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        5 months ago

        I have a meter I could test with if I wanted, although I’m not sure why iStat would lie

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        5 months ago

        I use one of those tiny mini PCs, with an AMD mobile CPU in it. It sips power but has enough oomph for transcoding when necessary. I’m sure the NAS that my library actually sits on uses way more power with its mechanical HDDs.

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      5 months ago

      2 watts isn’t a lot 😁 I’m not sure but my gpu alone consumes more than that when idle

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        5 months ago

        Sure! It’s an M2 MacMini, 16gb ram 512gb ssd. I monitor its power usage with iStat menus 6