[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome and ACPI wake up

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 23:22:41 UTC 2007


2007/11/12, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com>:
> On Nov 11, 2007 2:51 PM, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/11/11, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com>:
> > > In MythWelcome press F11 to show the MythShutdown/MythWelcome Settings
> > > page set the following:-
> > >
> > > Command to Set Wakeup Time: - Add the name of your script here to set
> > > the wakeup time using ACPI. The time will be passed as a parameter. Your
> > > script should return  '0' if you want to shutdown, '1' if you need to
> > > reboot or '2' if something went wrong.
> >
> >
> > How should the script know whether I want to shutdown or reboot? I
> > will check this out, Mythwelcome's wakeup time did not work for me
> > long time ago, but it might have changed in the meantime.
> >
> > M.
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>
> Ma,
>
> I posted a set of scripts to the list awhile ago (last summer?) that I have
> been using successfully with MythWelcome, MythShutdown, and Myth.
>
> Can't recall details of thread title, but if you search for my e-mail addresses
> (huffcslists at gmail dot com and huffcs at gmail dot com) at the
> gossamerthreads archive along with michelle dupuis', you should find
> the thread.
>
> I have been using ACPI wakeup along with Tux On Ice (formerly suspend2)
> to hibernate my system and wake it up to do scheduled activities, both
> recordings and mythfilldatabase runs.  I had to do some fiddling with
> the ethernet configuration to support suspend-to-ram, but always had
> luck with suspend-to-disk.  I run FC6 at the moment on my BE where this
> matters most.  You may have trouble with ACPI wakeup after kernel
> version 2.6.20 and 2.6.24 since there was a bug that AFAIK is not yet
> incorporated and is scheduled to be released with 2.6.24.
>


I have no problem at all with ACPI. Mythshutdown was just not able to
set the wakeup time. I solved that long time ago with small script.

M.


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