[mythtv] No Auto-shutdown if started for wakeup period. Scheduler change required.

[Matt Doran]

Hi all,

I've already submitted a patch to improve the autoshutdown behaviour.  
The patch is here: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3403

I've encountered another problem, where the box will not shutdown if the 
box was started for a daily wakeup period.   The scheduler 
(scheduler.cpp), has code that tries to detect if the machine was 
started automatically (and hence should allow an auto shutdown).   It's 
around line 1354.   It does this by seeing if a recording is about to 
start.   But this isn't good enough.   It needs to also consider the 
wakeup periods.

The mythshutdown program has code that determines if the startup was 
automatic or manual.  It takes scheduled recordings and the wakeup 
periods into account.   The test can be performed by running: 
"mythshutdown --startup", which returns an exit status of 0 if 
automatic, or 1 if manual startup.   I think we should change the 
scheduler to also use this technique (possibly in addition to the test 
it already does).

Chris Pinkham, the scheduler is your area, what do you think?   We could 
call "mythshutdown --startup", or refactor that code to be called 
directly from the scheduler?

I'd like to work up for a patch for this.  Which way do you think is 
best approach?

PS:  It is possible to turn off "blockSDWUwithoutClient".  This will 
allow the backend to shutdown even if a client has never connected.  
without having a client connected.   But I've had a lot of problems with 
this.   It's way too trigger happy.   If you restart the backend, and 
the frontend it started but sitting on a menu .... the backend will 
shutdown the box.    I even had the backend shutdown my box in the 
middle of an ubuntu upgrade because of that, which caused a lot of 
pain.   So I'd rather leave this setting on ... but have the backend 
detect if it was started automatically correctly.

Thanks,
Matt