[mythtv-users] Sleep mythfrontend from remote

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Peter,

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 10:16:16 PM, you wrote:

> On 01/20/2015 11:42 AM, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have a frontend in the bedroom and I want to configure to shutdown
>> in a certain time (30/60/90 minutes). Maybe a bash script executed
>> with a remote key.
>>
>> Anyone got it?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
> Maybe this is what you want (these are the settings I use so that when
> somebody goes away and leaves it running it eventually shuts down):

> Front end idle
(Setup->>Video->Playback) Live TV idle timeout 60
Setup->>general->shutdown/reboot settings -> idle time before entering
> standby mode (mins) -> 5

> These apply to shutting off if you are watching live tv. If you are
> watching a recording if will play to the end of it.

> In conjunction with these I have a bash script that shuts down the
> system when there is no connection to the backend.
> This runs continuously

>     while true ; do
>         sleep 300
>         if  $scriptpath/mythshutdown.sh ; then
>             setsid $scriptpath/systemshutdown.sh || true
>         fi
>     done

Why not put that in cron? I have jobs in cron (or actualy fcron)
running every minute to check on processes I want to restart if they
for whatever reason crash. Like mythbackend, or dhcpd. Fcron at the
same time then mails me.

> This is part of monitor.sh. See the script and the other scripts here
> http://mythtv-scripts.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/install/opt/mythtv/bin

> Peter




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