<p>On Aug 12, 2011 12:01 PM, "Neil Cooper" <<a href="mailto:neilcoo@yahoo.co.uk">neilcoo@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> >> 1) You don't have to start the frontend in order for something to be recorded.<br>
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>> Uhh.. not sure what part of my original post gave you the incorrect impression that I didn't already know that, especially as I describe how when I'm done with the frontend I explicitly exit the frontend back to mythwelcome.<br>
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>> The problem is that mythwelcome is starting the frontend even when mythtv wakes itself up via ACPI to record a show, This shouldn't happen according to the mythtv wiki:<br>
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>> Automatically Start<br>
>> Mythfrontend<br>
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>> - Normally when mythwelcome starts up it checks to see<br>
>> whether the system was started to record something or<br>
>> because of a wakeup/shutdown period. If not it will<br>
>> automatically start the frontend.<br>
>> You can disable this feature by unchecking this option. <br>
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<p>Neil-<br>
Maybe we're saying the same thing, but it sounded like you were saying that you had the option set to start mythfrontend, expecting it to ignore starting mythfrontend if the system decides it was woken to do a recording. I can see how the description above would give that impression, but that would be incorrect. On a combined FE/BE with mythwelcome, turn off that option. It will open up just the mythwelcome screen, do the recording and shutdown. OTOH, when you want to watch something on the FE/BE, you'll have to use your control to tell mythwelcome to start mythfrontend.</p>
<p>The switch is for use on an FE-only system, where there's not much point in starting in mythwelcome, so you want to go directly to mythfrontend. In my case, I sometimes want to lock (prevent) shutdown from a FE, shutdown the FE, and then go to another (FE or BE) to do more mythtv, so I exit mythfrontend into mythwelcome and use its menu to lock mythtv and shutdown this FE.</p>
<p>Better explanation?</p>
<p>Craig.</p>