Recent content by Phil Clayton

Agree. The VIA C7 processor and Motherboard and hard drive I use draws a consistant 23 watts while running my Automation software. I considered an Intel Atom Motherboard, but it does not look like it would use that much less energy, so I'll stay with what I already have.

Agree the Automation server needs to stay running. The Hard Drive on my existing HS Server does spindown after several minutes, so this helps a bit, and it has run this way for over a year now. My Home Media Server however goes to standby mode after 30 minutes of non use, and it wakes easily if...

Thanks, I realize you are correct. Homeseer can not work in a standby mode. Guess I should be happy my present system only draws 23 watts under full load now using the VIA processor. My previous Motherboard needed about 45 watts to run HomeSeer on

Question is will an event wake up a computer running HomeSeer from "Standby" mode ? I love the idea of newer computers that will goto "Standby" mode and thus only draw about 3 watts current in this idle state. Wondering if I can run HomeSeer on such a Motherboard, and wake up the computer when...

What I finally did was get a used Motherboard with embedded Cyrix C7 processor on board, 1Ghz CPU, and 512MB Ram included all for $25. These Processor like The Intel Atom use very little current 11-20 watts. Actually purchased 2 of these one for a spare. But i now run my whole Homeseer on this...

Sorry to hear your Caddx is not working well. Personally I think Caddx is one of the best. Mines been running perfectly for over 5 years now. I have the Caddx NX-8 panel, and the X10 option board on it. Even prints out status to a little receipt printer as events happen or if security problems...

My First time post here at Cocoontech. OK, I purchased this very cool Kill-a-Watt meter, and Obsessed now with measuring everything in my house. I find my present Headless Server running HomeSeer Ver 1.7 "Sips" a lean 58watts of current in an idle state, and when some event happens like turning...