Is it possible for someone to write a script/plug-in ect for this to be done ?

I wonder why Vue has not implemented this yet ?

if you use the external renderer, when the job starts up, there's a tickbox that is supposed to shut the PC down when the render queue is finished.  Dunno how well it works though

It works perfectly, I use it a lot.

 Yes I have used it, it works.

Even after using Vue for quite a few years, i do not know what about the external renderer. What does it use and depend on ect. ect.

It's just the normal Vue renderer but it runs as an external process.  Good for rendering out big scenes if you are a bit short on RAM as you can close Vue and let the render carry on

I use the external render most of the time for final output as well, let's you work on your system with the render running "silently" in the background (of course the render may slow down a bit when you do "other things") .

 You can tell Hypervue to use just other machines on your network and not your main machine as well, that way all your other PCs are rendering your work and your main PC is not using any CPU so you can work on other stuff. :)

Well, I finally had the time to mess with it, and I havent found anything regarding shut down. I have only one machine, so network rendering does not pertain to me (;

Is the external render engine robust? If a render takes my computer 20 minutes with standard Vue render, using external, with no other process running, does it take longer? It may save video card heating in my SLI rig

it seems pretty robust to me, I often used to use it to render out images that I couldn't render inside Vue and it worked fine

 My experience with HyperVue so far has been great. It depends on the image, but basically, if I render an image on my main PC and it takes an hour, then render it again using hyperview with 4 machines working on the render, the render time is cut down to 17 minutes.