[mythtv-users] upnpmedia polling

Richard Scott richard at rhysmission.co.uk
Wed Jul 2 09:07:15 UTC 2008


Just wondered if any of these changes are likely to be implemented soon 
- I've recently upgraded from .20 to .21 and have discovered that is 
causing my 3 media drives to wake from sleep at regular intervals...

Richard

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] upnpmedia polling
From: Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 16:15:51 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

>> have the scan off.  Once the backend receives a UPNP request, then the timer
>> starts firing (the first time it runs ASAP, then back to its regular schedule).
> 
>  My biggest worry about that was just how long the scan will take on 
> some peoples content. At the moment it's about 2 seconds on my box 
> scanning 2800 files in a ton of directories over NFS, but I'm worried 
> that on some it will take longer and the upnpclient might timeout 
> waiting for the response causing the user to manually have to 
> connect/grab the list again a second time. 
> 
>  I'd be interested in getting a better idea of just how long this 
> is taking on others systems.
> 
> Making a configurable timer (and a flat out on/off) switch would 
> be simple and let users keep it to a minimum if they want.
> In fact there are several upnp variables we could expose but I can 
> see most of them just causing a support nightmare as 
> users "tweak" everything :)
> 
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