[mythtv-users] Sleep timer

Paul Woodward paul_woodward at fastnet.co.uk
Mon Feb 9 15:45:21 EST 2004


> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tom Jaeger wrote:
> 
> > is great because it stops at the end of the show. If I fall asleep
> > watching live TV then it is crashed by the time I wake up in the
> 
> Probably better to fix the bug thats crashing it - I accidentally left
> liveTV running all day a while back and was well impressed to find it
> still happilly chugging away when I got home from work :)
> 
> You could always create a cron job that kills the frontend at a certain
> time and set it up so the frontend restarts whenever it dies.
> 

On a similar note, would it be feasible to run the backend in a loop so that it will auto restart if it crashes. Could this be done if the backend is auto started on boot (as per the mythtv docs).

Paul



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