[mythtv-users] mythbackend won't idle until mythfrontend disconnects

James Stembridge jstembridge at gmail.com
Thu May 12 08:41:00 UTC 2005


On 5/12/05, Max Barry <mythtv at maxbarry.com> wrote:
> (1) If it *is* enabled, then mythbackend helpfully writes into the log
> either "Recording starts soon, AUTO-Startup assumed" or "Seem to be
> woken up by USER". It then calls my startup script with the argument
> "auto" or "user," just like it should. However, this is pointless,
> because that "Block shutdown before client connects" setting means I
> *have* start the frontend if I ever want mythbackend to realize it's
> idle.

Although intuitively that's what you would think it doesn't work that
way. When the backend decides it's an "auto" start it won't wait for a
frontend to start, even though the "Block shutdown before client
connects" setting implies that it would. Try it, it definitely works
:)

James.


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