Any new info on this?
I think quite common use case for some kind of URL-request (http request) based shutdown
is the one, where UPS is connected to pc and the pc shutdown script could also ask
the Buffalo (in my case LinkStation Duo LS-WXL) to shut down too.
In my case I have multiple users in the home network where the LinksStation is used
for information sharing (it is NAS) and some of those users use laptops (battery power) and
some are tower pc:s, so the auto-off auto-energy-saver (service running in each computer)
is not a solution. However, in my UPS and a custom command (such as a custom Windows batch-file)
can be run when the UPS is about to run out of battery and this url, if it is possible
to command NAS to shut down with a url (say using utilities like curl.exe or wget.exe) would
be a very handy solution. Laptop users - who could be possibly totally unaware of the power loss
would just experience it by seeing the WLAN drop off at some moment but before that
the NAS would have had gracefully shut down closing any open files as they should.
So, does anybody know any new information on this? Surely Buffalo must
have thought the "what about if the UPS is connected to pc"-scenario too. Or have they?
Of course, writing quite a complex http-session script from a scratch, which would interactively
log into the Buffalo using the WEB GUI and select the shutdown URL is one last option.