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<body><div>On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:10:48 +0100, Daryl McDonald <darylangela@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If I understand correctly, logging off, instead of powering off will allow myth to power off the box and thereby enable powering on for recordings when set up properly.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depends on the scripts you use later on. Mythbackend will power off when you exit the frontend (provided there's no in-progress/imminent recordings, jobs etc). If by "logging off" you mean you're also using the system as a desktop & the frontend isn't running, then you need to set up the scripts to prevent Myth shutting the system down until you have logged out.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>But I've hit a brick wall before I get that far, I'm following the how-to for setting the alarm when clock is in RTC, I've swapped the "&gt" command for ">." and even prefaced with "sudo" and still permission is denied. What have I missed?</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date "2013-08-29 10:15:00" +%s`</div><div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ echo 0 >.; /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div><div>bash: .: Is a directory</div>
<div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div><div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo 0 >.; /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div><div>bash: .: Is a directory</div><div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$</div></div><div><br></div><div>Dary</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What you want is;</div><div><br></div><div>echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div><div><br></div><div>as per the Myth wiki at <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup"> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup</a></div><div><br></div><div>The link you posted has errors in it. The ">" symbol has been rendered as "&gt;" for the reasons Chris stated</div><div><br></div><br><br></body></html>