[mythtv-users] power savings

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Raymond,

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 8:22:00 AM, you wrote:

> On 4/22/2014 11:01 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
>> So I have couple of G1610 based font ends. I had been running arch linux
>> on them as front ends for my  mythtv backend. Do you guys have any power
>> savings tips ?
>> I had installed windows 8.1 on my spare ssd and power saving ability
>> seem amazing compared to linux. I am running xbmc on it and my frontend
>> goes to deep sleep/hybernation  when not used. On the same hardware
>> linux will turnoff screen spindown hard drive but it seems windows does
>> it so much better. When I suspend my frontend running xbmc on linux and
>> then resume it i can play movies, tv shows and recorded tv but not live
>> tv I have to restart xbmc in order to get live tv working again.For some
>> reason mythtv  backend and xbmc can't talk to eachother after resume.
>> Windows 8.1 and xbmc dont have such problem.

> Does the official frontend experience this same issue?

I use the TuxOnIce kernel extension, which allows for complete
hibernate to disk. I can just unplug after hibernation, no power usage
at all and up in no time. Alternately you can suspend to ram (but save
also to disk. Then there is slight power usage, but a restore in 2
seconds. If the power has been off it resumes from disk. Especially
nice with a laptop!


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