<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">Anyone using mythwelcome, mythshutdown, and ACPI alarm have any suggestions?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">This weekend I tried setting the following setup:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">mythtv-setup parameters and values:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"> wakeup time format: yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"> set wakeup time command: mythshutdown --setwakeup $time </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0,
127, 64);">mythwelcome --setup parameters and values:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"> nvram-wakeup command: `echo ${time}:00 | sed "s/T/ /"` | tee /var/log/alarm.log > /proc/acpi/alarm</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">I was hoping that MythTV uses the "set wakeup time command" to record in the database what time to</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">expect the system to restart as a way to determine whether the system was started by the user or not.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">Further, that the way the alarm was set was to "exec" the string in the "nvram-wakeup command", so that</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">I could use an arbitrary command rather than
nvram-wakeup. I haven't configured nvram-wakeup to set</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">the ACPI alarm rather than the APM alarm (and may not be able to figure out how to configure it, either).</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">It didn't work (nothing written to /var/log/alarm.log and no alarm time set in /proc/acpi/alarm). 8-(</span><br><br>watkinshome said:<br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> Is it simply that I need to put the appropriate date/time format and <br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> command-line statement in mythtvsetup's entries for "wakeup time format" and <br>> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">"set wakeup time command"? <br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> <br>> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">If so, would those be: <br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss <br><br></font> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066"><font
style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64);" size="2">My system doesn't appear to support month or day since it wakes up every day <br>(a problem that is being addressed in another thread). However, since that's the<br>format that "cat" produces, that's what I feed back to /proc/acpi/alarm.<br></font><br>> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">That's what I have. I guess it depends if your motherboard supports <br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"
size="2">month and day. Do <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066"># cat /proc/acpi/alarm <br></font> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font
color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">and copy the format of what comes out. <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">[and] <br></font></font></font><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> <br>> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">echo $time > /proc/acpi/alarm <br></font> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"
size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">That looks right to me if you run your backend as root. Because I don't, I have <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">sudo sh -c 'echo $time > /proc/acpi/alarm' <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066"></font></font></font><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">What about the settings in MythWelcome's setup page? Do I duplicate the <br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> above "echo $time..." command in the "nvram-wakeup command" entry? <br>> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066"></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Sorry, I don't use
mythwelcome. </font></font><br><div> </div>Craig Huff<br>huffcs from yahoo<div><br></div></div><br>
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