[mythtv-commits] Ticket #13136: Frontend Startup Improvement

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#13136: Frontend Startup Improvement
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 Reporter:  pbennett          |          Owner:  pbennett
     Type:  Patch - Feature   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor             |      Milestone:  30.0
Component:  MythTV - General  |        Version:  Master Head
 Severity:  medium            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by pbennett):

 Thank you for looking at this.

 If I understand correctly you feel it would be better if the frontend
 starts up completely when the backend is already running, and goes into
 the startup screen if the backend is down. I think that could be done very
 easily, by suppressing wakeup until the user specifically selects "Retry"
 on the startup screen. It would go though an initial round of trying and
 failing to connect to the backend and then wait for the user to select one
 of the options such as Retry or Exit. Upon Retry the wakeup would be
 enabled.

 In the case where the backend was already running, you would need to make
 sure the frontend idle timeout is set so that if you are using the
 frontend machine for something else mythfrontend can go into idle and the
 backend can shut down. When the frontend is idle and the backend shuts
 down, the frontend will theoretically wake the backend on any key stroke,
 however it can take many minutes to respond to the key stroke. That
 situation does not work well, due to the long timeouts involved. I tried
 and failed to find an easy solution to this.

 I could add another startup option, for example --nowakeup, to implement
 this way of doing it. Do you think that is worthwhile?

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