[mythtv-users] TRying to configure auto shutdown and startup

xavier hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Mon Aug 18 09:26:39 UTC 2008


Hi Aaron
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:42 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote:
> I have a primary backend/frontend and a secondary backend/frontend.  I
> would like to setup the systems so they shutdown when not in use
> automaticly.  I have tried walking through the following how to on the
> mythtv wiki.http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup I am
> having issues with getting this to work.  I am running mythbuntu 8.04
> and I can manually schedule a wakeup using the /proc/acpi/alarm
> interface on both systems.  Meaning if I run echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00"
> > /proc/acpi/alarm as root and then do a shutdown the system will
> startup in 5 minutes.  Given that sucess I figured I could get the
> rest to work.  I tried using the settings and information further down
> on the wiki page but I am not seeing the systems shutdown.  I have
> tried looking at various logs and I don't see any enteries as to what
> would be causing the shutdown to not schedule.
> 
> I have set the following settings on the primery backend based on the
> wikis suggestions.
> 
> Block shutdown: (checked, if you run frontend and backend on 1 machine)
> Idle Timeout (seconds): 300 (if you set this to 0, it will disable
> auto shutdown)
> Max wait (minutes): 30
> Startup before rec. (seconds): 300
> Wakeup time format: time_t
> Set wakeuptime command: sudo /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh $time
> Server halt command: sudo mythshutdown --shutdown
> Pre-shutdown command: sudo mythshutdown --check
> 
> I used the sample script sample.sh and named it setwakeup.sh and did a
> chmod +x to the script to permit it to run.

As you are not mentioning it, do you use mythwelcome ? mythwelcome need
to be use when you mix backend/frontend on the same machine. Otherwise
mythfrontend stay connected to the backend and the backend never shut
down.
Xqvier



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