[mythtv-users] Question regarding nvram-wakeup and mythfillda tabase

[Dawson, Guy]

> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards
> Sent: 13 June 2006 22:31
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Question regarding nvram-wakeup 
> and mythfilldatabase
> 
> > The machine only wakes up to record.  I think that MythBackend runs 
> > Mythfilldatabase no more than once per day,  rather than at 
> the same 
> > time every day ( assuming the default config ).  If no program is 
> > scheduled at the ideal time,  downloading occurs at the 
> next start up.
> 
> Then I'm guessing you're probably using anacron and have an 
> entry for mythfilldatabase in /etc/cron.daily?
> 

No,  I just set Myth itself to invoke mythfilldatabase.  This works just
right (now) in that the machine (usually) has 12/13 days of listings, and it
only wakes up to make a recording.

The caveats are to do with the fact that I had problems with config file
locations when running automatically versus manually, but this has nothing
to do with the auto shutdown / wake up process and is now resolved (thanks
to help from this list).

I'm curious as to whether you actually want your system to wake up for the
download or not?  My machine is set to record shows most days, so the
machine is actually on about 3-4 hours per weekday.  This means that the
schedules are always pretty fresh.  I can see that a machine that is less
heavily used might miss late breaking changes to the listings if these were
not being explicitly down loaded on a regular basis.

Regards

Guy





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