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On Apr 10, 2013 2:07 AM, "George Nassas" <<a href="mailto:gnassas@mac.com">gnassas@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2013-04-07, at 1:41 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:<br>
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> > I now have several mythtv front-ends and often find front-ends running unused for days. Is there a way to configure a front-end to power itself down if has been idle for (eg) 2 hours?<br>
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> Following on the suggestion of using standby mode you can go into Setup -> General to tell the frontend how long it should wait before entering standby mode and then have a cron job that runs every 5 or 10 minutes which tests for that by checking for output from this command:<br>
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> curl -s <a href="http://localhost:6547/Frontend/GetStatus">http://localhost:6547/Frontend/GetStatus</a> | grep '<Key>currentlocation</Key><Value>standbymode</Value>'<br>
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> a non-empty result means its safe to shut down the frontend machine.</p>
<p>Do you have to be using mythwelcome for this to work?</p>