[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 12.04 and sleep

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Fri Sep 14 06:36:29 UTC 2012


On 14/09/2012 4:30 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>         Thanks for your script... I used it as a reference when I used
>         mine.  My script is much simpler, and takes advantage of the
>         fact that mythfrontend will disable xscreensaver during
>         playback.  It's not suitable for a combined BE/FE, but it
>         meets my needs really well.  I just have it start at boot in
>         my session manager.  The script is here:
>         http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sleep(Suspend)_When_Idle
>         <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sleep%28Suspend%29_When_Idle>
>         <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sleep%28Suspend%29_When_Idle>
>
>     Thats nice and simple, but;
>             If you do not have a visualizer running, mythmusic allows
>     screensaver and DPMS to activate whilst playing music
>             MythBrowser will allow the screensaver to activate whilst
>     viewing web pages, and thus cause your script to shutdown machine
>             My script checks if a recording/video is paused, and sets
>     a bookmark before shutting down.  (Or clears the bookmark if one
>     is set, I havent as yet worked out how to check if there are any
>     bookmarks set)
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> I should check if music is playing... I'll have to figure that one out.
Myth Python bindings will do this for you.
>
> I'm not too concerned about mythbrowser, if the screensaver activates 
> and you ignore it, your no longer looking at the page anyway.
I use it to stream some radio stations, hence my need to ignore 
mythbrowser when checking for inactivity
>
> Because I am just suspending, the system wakes up right where you were 
> in the video if you had it paused... no need to check it or set a 
> bookmark.
>
Neat, I had read that you need to restart the frontend on return from 
suspend.  Clearly not.


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