Re: Rebooting PC automatically when it hangs?

["Vince Goddard" <mdsupp@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

He could use an Ocelot and have HS set an Ocelot var to "1" every
min.
The Ocelot could reset this var to "0" and check that it goes to
"1"
within 2 mins. If then the var stays at "0" the Ocelot could then
toggle the power to the PC.

Vince

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ukha_D@Egroups. Com" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:48:00 +0100
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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