Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

[Stephen Morris]

On 10/09/2014 01:52 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 07:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> I have had an issue with a wall double power point that has a power
>> board plugged into each socket, where when there was a power blackout
>> the red led on one power board went out but the red led on the 2nd
>> power board remain lit the entire time of the blackout, when there is
>> power into the power boards the red light is lit on both. This makes
>> no sense to me if the wall socket is the same as that sold by the
>> electronics store where there is only one connection point for the
>> mains wiring, as with only one connection point how could one side be
>> out and the other side be active in a power blackout?
> Sounds more like a brownout, than a blackout.  A brownout (horrible
> choice of words), is when the mains goes low voltage, rather than
> completely cuts out.  It's possible for it to go far too low for
> electrical devices to run, but there might still be enough for things
> like LED pilot lights to still illuminate.
>
> Brownouts are a common cause of bogus repair jobs.  The mains went low,
> and caused equipment to behave oddly, but it never went completely of,
> so people assume the equipment failed rather than the mains, and take it
> in for repair, when it didn't have anything wrong with it.  Or, the low
> mains power upset the circuitry and it randomises settings in
> computerised gadgets (televisions, video recorders), so the clock goes
> funny and all the tuner settings go askew.  All those gadgets really
> needed was to be turned off, completely, for a few seconds, and turned
> back on again.  And perhaps go through the tuning process, again.  But
> people take the gadget in for repair, and the serviceman finds nothing
> wrong with it.
It could have been a brownout that seemed to switch off all the other 
powerpoints and the house lights as well as the street lights and house 
lights on the other houses on our side of the street. I just didn't 
understand how I could have 2 powerboards plugged into a double wall 
socket and have one powerboard with the led lit and the other one not, 
especially if there was only 1 connection point to the house wires.

regards,
Steve


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