[mythtv] Frontend idle shutdown (was: RE: [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: 7867d7efb by Stuart Morgan (stuartm))

[Yves Cayer]

> On 12-02-01 08:37 PM, Michael Watson wrote: 
> > 
> > IMHO, it would be better if it worked thus; 
> > 
> > Frontend Only Machine: 
> > If Frontend idle for "Idle Time" then run "Frontend Idle 
> > Script", that could either shutdown/hibernate/suspend the machine or run 
> > some other task (cant think of what, but good if user could configure it 
> > how they want, not just hard coded shutdown) 
> 
> Yes! Totally agree. I've been wanting _real_ FE idleness handling (as 
> opposed to my hack which looks at GPU interrupts) for a year or two now. 
> 
> By real, of course that's idleness as determined by MFE not playing 
> anything or being interacted with at a menu (although that gives me an 
> idea about how to monitor LIRC and factor that into my FE idleness hack 
> script). 
> 
> And of course, configurable idle action, just as it is for the BE, but 
> it really ought to inform the BE that it's idle rather than the BE then 
> having to have some sort of FE inactivity timer to decide that it's 
> idle. Although the BE should also have such an inactivity timer to 
> account for FEs that just go AWOL. 

I've created a ticket #10596 with a patch to do this. 

It has a user configurable action for when the idle time expires. You can quit the frontend, run a shell command (or /sbin/halt), or enter the standby screen.

Please have a look. I've been using for several weeks now and it's working nicely. I have 3 frontend-only systems and I used to have to run a cron job to monitor frontend activity for shutdown but it wasn't very user friendly.  

Comments welcome.


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