HD200 - Rebooting From Command Line

[personalt]

With the HD100 there was a mini-application/script I could call to reboot the box. This doesnt seem to work with the HD200

Does anyone have a way to remotely reboot?

My server and extender are the closet and I am controlling via CQC. anytime I reboot the machine the connection drops and I have head down to the closet to reboot.

[cenwesi]

telnet into the hd200 and i believe the login ID=root with no password.
and issue the reboot command at the shell. That worked for me

[jwpicard]

I am assuming you want to reboot your server not the HD200

create a batch file called whatever, mine is called reboot.bat. Inside that put the following command - shutdown -r t 05
the -r tells it to reboot and the t 05 says to wait for 5 seconds. Then just add this as an external command on your menu somewhere.

I also schedule this to run at 7 am becuase I have it on Windows XP and it seems to perform better with a daily reset.

[matt91]

Originally Posted by jwpicard

I am assuming you want to reboot your server not the HD200

I think he means the extender. The server gets rebooted, but then the extender is out of sync, and needs to be restarted too.

[Eckwell]

Originally Posted by cenwesi

telnet into the hd200 and i believe the login ID=root with no password.
and issue the reboot command at the shell. That worked for me

Can you give me the syntax to use telnet in this way? This would be great to set up each time the server reboots (for whatever reason!) WAF would go up a few tenths...

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by Eckwell

Can you give me the syntax to use telnet in this way? This would be great to set up each time the server reboots (for whatever reason!) WAF would go up a few tenths...

[If your HD200's ip was 192.168.1.200]

Start--Run--cmd
telnet 192.168.1.200
root
[NO PASSWORD]
reboot

[cenwesi]

Simple:

meSvr$: telnet 192.168.1.13

Trying 192.168.1.13...
Connected to 192.168.1.13.
Escape character is '^]'.

STP-HD200 login: root

Once you are in... simply issue the command:

meSvr$: reboot now

thats it...

[QueOnda]

Or you can use the Neilm's webadmin and has an option to power off or reboot.

[personalt]

I found a good solution. the file that is attached will script a batch file for reboot the HD200. just edit the ip file with the of your extender(s)

I found the application here, I take no claim to it other then it seems to work good
http://www.techidiots.net/autoit-scripts/telnet-batch

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by personalt

With the HD100 there was a mini-application/script I could call to reboot the box. This doesnt seem to work with the HD200

Does anyone have a way to remotely reboot?

My server and extender are the closet and I am controlling via CQC. anytime I reboot the machine the connection drops and I have head down to the closet to reboot.

Does this utility reboot EXE not work to reboot the HD200?
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=251

I don't have a HD200 so I can't test it, but if you give me the exact log of the console displayed when accessing it via TELNET, I can update this program to fix it.

For example, here is how the current version works against the HD100

Login Prompt:

em86xx login:  root<enter>
password: <enter>

If login attempt is invalid, the following is returned by the extender:

login incorrect

If login attempt is successful, the following is returned by the extender:

em86xx[/root]#

To issue a POWER ON instruction, I send this command:

killall waitpower<enter>

To issue a POWER OFF instruction, I send this command:

killall miniclient<enter>

To issue a REBOOT instruction, I send this command:

reboot<enter>

If somebody can update the telnet command syntax for the HD200, I will be happy to update this utility program.

Thanks, SB

[mangriotis]

The syntax for the HD200 is in this thread and is quite simple I think.

root
reboot now

the vbs solution is working for me, and your exectrl seemed to only indicate the HD100, so I didn't try it.

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by mangriotis

The syntax for the HD200 is in this thread and is quite simple I think.

root
reboot now

the vbs solution is working for me, and your exectrl seemed to only indicate the HD100, so I didn't try it.

Do you know if the POWER ON and POWER OFF commands are the same?

Thanks, SB

[aflat]

I logged in, here is a dump of what I have so far, I can't reboot yet, the wife is still using it. I tried l to login the first time so you can see an invalid login. I'll get you more later, but I didn't want to forget at least this.

STP-HD200 login: l
Password:
Login incorrect
STP-HD200 login: root
login: can't chdir to home directory '/root'
STP-HD200[/]#

killall waitpower
killall miniclient
reboot

all work like the HD100

[hugenbdd]

Yes,
All three of those commands posted earlier work from telnet.

Your exe does not work. It appears to wait for the "password" prompt.

C:\Users\Dave>C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\sageextctrl.exe 192.168.1.24 off
------------------------------------------------
SageTV HD-100 Extender Controller
------------------------------------------------
[CONNECTED SUCCESSFULLY] @ 192.168.1.24
^C
C:\Users\Dave>

[aflat]

It's probably looking for the incorrect prompt, since it changed between the HD100 and HD200. Before it was waiting for em86xx[/root]#, now it has to look for STP-HD200[/]#

[shadeblue.com]

OK, I modified the logic to accept the sequence that 'aflat' posted. I am still issuing 'reboot' and not 'reboot now' based on 'hugenbdd' comments.

Thank you both for posting your findings.

I have posted the updated version to this thread, if somebody can test this updated version, that would be very helpful.

Thanks, SB


REMOVED FILE FROM THIS POST, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE UPDATED FILE HERE

[lamanmi]

I would like to monitor the status of when our HD200s are turned on and off for various reasons (track the kids usage, make sure the TV is turned off if the HD200 is off, etc).

Obviously Nielm's Web Server shows the status, but I am looking for a more direct way that can be accessed through a batch file or script?

I am thinking of such methods being able to use telnet to get the status, a TCP port type of inquiry, or other command line type of interface.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[aflat]

If you telnet in, do a "ps -as" and if /client/miniclient is running, it's on, if /client/waitpower is running, it's off.

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by lamanmi

I would like to monitor the status of when our HD200s are turned on and off for various reasons (track the kids usage, make sure the TV is turned off if the HD200 is off, etc).

Obviously Nielm's Web Server shows the status, but I am looking for a more direct way that can be accessed through a batch file or script?

I am thinking of such methods being able to use telnet to get the status, a TCP port type of inquiry, or other command line type of interface.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

aflat's suggestion will work with TELNET.

Or you can check out Nielm's GetStatus plug-in. (http://tools.assembla.com/sageplugin...etStatusPlugin). If it contains the data you are looking for, then it is just a TCP connect and the status data is dumped to your socket.

[lamanmi]

Both are great suggestions and just what I needed. Thanks!!