[mythtv-users] Upcoming Recordings

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/2011 14:30, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/7/2011 14:21, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a way to make upcoming recordings scheduled on a
>>>> slave backend to show up when the backend is offline?
>>>
>>> The schedule of upcoming recordings only exists in memory on the master
>>> backend.
>>
>> OK, so about the only time I use mythweb (which is my master backend)
>> is when I am not home and decide I need to record something, or when I
>> want to record something some days out.  I have my slave off since
>> last night, and none of the upcoming recordings assigned to it show
>> up.  I had someone turn it on temporarily, and they all showed up.  Is
>> this normal for mythweb (on the master)?  I am unsure what happens
>> from a TV as I am not there, and this is my first run in with this.
>
> If the slave has been automatically shutdown by the master because it was
> idle, the master assumes the slave can be brought up just the same using
> WOL.  The slave's tuners are still available for scheduling, and everything
> behaves as if it were still connected.  If the slave was shutdown manually,
> the backend considers those tuners will not be available for any upcoming
> recordings.

Makes perfect sense.  Thanks for the explanation.