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On Aug 28, 2013 4:30 PM, "Daryl McDonald" <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Karl Dietz <<a href="mailto:dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org">dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> On 28.08.2013 22:33, Daryl McDonald wrote:<br>
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>>>> If I understand it correctly using UTC or not is a decision that is<br>
>>>> mostly made depending on presence of other (Windows) operating systems<br>
>>>> dual-booting on the same hardware.<br>
>>>> I do have dual boot, so I should opt for RTC?<br>
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>>> according to the other mail you can choose to set your hardware clock<br>
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>>> * local wall clock time and add the conversion between UTC and local<br>
>>> time to your MythTV shutdown script<br>
>>> * UTC without any calculations on the linux side, but needs a registry<br>
>>> hack for windows (see Chris' mail, this option is new to me)<br>
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>>>> I don't get the option for S5, just 1,2,3, or auto, and terminal output<br>
>>>> says I can wake from S4...more confusion<br>
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>>> S5 is what happens when you tell the computer to power off instead of<br>
>>> some kind of sleeping.<br>
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>>>> * your tuners support whichever power saving state you decide on (do<br>
>>>> they need special fiddling to come back to working state?)<br>
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>>>> Don't know how to do that<br>
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>>> look for known issues with your selected hardware. Maybe on linuxtv or<br>
>>> search the internet for problems reported by others.<br>
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>> Would my experience with powering off during nights when I know I'll be up before the next recording indicate that my hardware is OK with S5? <br>
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>>>> * MythTV likes whatever state you decide on. hint: full shutdown is<br>
>>>> known to work well :-)<br>
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>>>> Don't know how to do this either<br>
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>>> follow bug reports and user discussion wrt hibernate etc. but plain old<br>
>>> turn off and on is known to work. I have no idea how the backend likes<br>
>>> it if the system time suddenly jumps ahead some hours/days.<br>
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>>> I'd just try if the system comes back up when you set an alarm in<br>
>>> 5 minutes and shut down. If that doesn't work disable the update of the<br>
>>> hwclock on shutdown, see the howto you referred to. And only if that<br>
>>> does not work start looking into the other options.<br>
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>>> Regards,<br>
>>> Karl<br>
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>> I'm thinking I'll toggle to auto, rather than S1,2,or3; should give me the best shot for the first test anyway.<br>
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>> Thanks, Daryl <br>
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> OK I modified the wake alarm script ala the how-to and entered the first line of the "simple test" and this was returned:<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ echo 0 &gt; /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm<br>
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> 0<br>
> gt: command not found<br>
> [1]+ Done echo 0<br>
> bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ <br>
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> From permission denied I'm guessing it needs to be executed with sudo, but I won't get anywhere if the "gt" command is not recognized. Did I miss something?<br>
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