[mythtv] Scheduler disturbs idle timeout for automatic shutdown

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 20:17:20 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to set up an automatic shutdown by the mythbackend. However, I
> had very lousy results. The reason seems to be the scheduler resets the
> idle countdown before it reaches 0. The logfile looks like this:
> 
> 40 secs left to system shutdown!
> EITScanner: Added 1 EIT Events
> Reschedule requested for id -1.
> Scheduled 4 items in 0.1 = 0.06 match + 0.02 place
> scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 4 items in 0.1 = 0.06 match + 0.02 place
> I'm idle now... shutdown will occur in 600 seconds.
> 
> A looked into programs/mythbackend/scheduler.cpp and found out that
> RunScheduler() messes around with idle stuff. Is there a reason why the
> scheduler resets the idle countdown?

To be more specific, this part of the code in RunScheduler() resets the
idle countdown:

	if (statuschanged)
	{
		MythEvent me("SCHEDULE_CHANGE");
		gContext->dispatch(me);
		idleSince = QDateTime();
	}

What is the impact if I remove the idleSince = QDateTime();?

Regards,
Tino