At the beginning of the month I set up my mythtv box to shutdown/wakeup automatically using ACPI, mythshutdown and mythwelcome. Prior to that it was running 24/7. <br><br clear="all">I have a cron job which does a db backup, optimize, xfs defrag etc - which is set to run daily at 3am. In order to allow for this I've set one of the wake-up periods to 2:45 - 3:45. I've also put a "mythshutdown --lock" at the top of my script and a "mythshutdown --unlock" at the bottom.
<br><br>I use the other wake-up period to have the box awake during my main viewing period - 19:00 - 23:59 (the box is both BE and FE).<br><br>So far so good. I set it up following the wiki with very little trouble and it's been working perfectly. Or so I thought. It always wakes up for recordings, it always wakes up for 19:00 but it hasn't been waking up for 2:45. I hadn't realised this until last night because often it had been still awake running a job after a recording, so the backups were getting done (mostly).
<br><br>Anyway I've been looking into this, searching the archives of this list, the wiki and elsewhere and I can't find any report of a similar problem, or any note of why one of the wakeup periods would work but not the other. The script I use to set the wakeup time in the BIOS writes to a log, so I can see that it never gets called for the 2:45 wakeup.
<br><br>The only thought I had was whether the wakeup periods need to be in order i.e. at the moment period1 is 19:00 - 23:59 and period2 is 02:45 - 03:45 - perhaps I need to switch them? I'll try that tonight in any case.
<br><br>I'm running SVN trunk from about a couple months ago. (I also searched Trac but didn't find anything on this)<br><br>-- <br>Paul Mason