[mythtv-users] Backend/Scheduler issue

Donavan Stanley geckofiend at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 13:22:17 EST 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:56:39 -0500, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>     I have been using mythtv for almost 2 years,  I currently run
> version 0.15.1.  Everything works fine for most part.  The biggest
> annoyance that I have is with the scheduler.  My box is a combo
> front/back end with 1 pvr-250 card.  During boot up I make use of a
> script that determines whether the backend thinks that it was awaken by
> the user or by a scheduled recording.  That script then creates a new
> .xinitrc file that either starts up mythfrontend or a small splash
> screen program that simply states that myth is in auto mode, press any
> key to start the frontend.  I did this so that the machine will
> automatically shutdown after the recording was finished because a
> frontend never connected.  This all works fine and dandy.  Problem is
> that during startup the query that determines whether the backend is in
> user or auto mode does not take into account whether a program has been
> previously recorded or disabled.  So if I start myth manually and a
> recording should have been running or will be running shortly (though
> previously recorded, you know grayed out in the "fix scheduled
> recording" screen) it assumes that it is in automode.  Problem is that
> the backend itself knows that there are no pending recordings and shuts
> down in 30 seconds because the frontend was never started.  Whew, what a
> mouthful.  Hope it was clear as to what the problem is.  Please ask any
> questions needed to clear it up.  Has anyone had a similar problem or
> has it been fixed in newer versions?  I've put off upgrading to 0.16
> because of the issues I have read about on the mailing list.
> 
> Thank you for any insight, advice.


You can alwasy grep the output from the backend when it starts, all
the info you need about why it was started.


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