[mythtv-users] MythTV and power cuts
William Powers
wepprop at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 18:30:19 UTC 2012
On Jun 12, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Rajil Saraswat <rajil.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for suggestions on how to keep going a mythtv machine in a place which has a lot of powercuts. Until now I have been using an APC ups along with excellent apcupsd software to switch off the machine on power failure and bring it back on when power restoration.
> Unfortunately, I have had to change the batteries every couple of months since they stop holding their power after a few cycles.
Although it's not what you asked, I have apcupsd set up with a runtime of 3 minutes. That gets me through all of the power transients but, for longer outages, I get a clean shutdown without putting a deep cycle on the batteries.
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