[mythtv] [mythtv-dev] Active EIT scanner and idle shutdown of backend

[Roger Siddons]

On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:32:07 +0000, Roger James wrote:

> A couple of years I disabled all active EIT scanning as that was the  
> only way I could get my backend to to idle shutdown. This was even after  
> | the fix for ticket #3597 was applied.
>I recently turned it back on again to see if things had changed in  
> fixes-0.26. They have not. I still cannot get my backend to shut down.  
> The > | sequence of events is as follows.
>1. The eit scanner finds some events. These can be for any program new  
> or old whether or not there is a recording schedule for it. This
> means that here in UK DVB-T land the scanner will pretty much  
> continually find new events. The scanner will then at least every 60 
> seconds queue a scheduler MATCH 0 0 0 request.
>2. The scheduler will find a MATCH request in its queue and because  
> HandleRequest will always return true for a match request it will set 
> statuschanged to true.
>3. When the scheduler calls HandleIdleShutdown the fact that  
> statuschanged is true will cause the shutdown timer to be reset!
>I cannot see how the patch in #3297 can ever have worked if the scanner  
> continues to find events even though those events may beirrelevant to  
> any recording schedules.
>
> Please can anyone confirm this!
>
> I can see two possible ways to fix this.
>
> 1. Stop the scanner requesting a reschedule if none of the events in its  
> queue relate to active recordings schedules. I do not think this is the 
> best way to go about it as mixes a lot of scheduling functionality into  
> the scanner.
>
> 2. Change the scheduler logic to only return statuschanged if recording  
> schedules have actually been changed.


I've never had a problem with EIT & shutdown personally, probably because  
I use a 30 sec idle shutdown timeout.

However, I know that Lawrence Rust has a patch that addresses this already.

See mythtv-0.26/0055 in  
http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythpatches-0.24.tar.bz2
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