[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome and ACPI wake up

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Thu Dec 20 15:41:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:20 -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 7:40 AM, Brion Swanson <brions at usalug.net> wrote:
> > Your subjects states you're using Mythwelcome with ACPI (as opposed to
> > nvram-wakeup), but I don't see that anywhere in your instructions here.
> > Are you saying you're planning on documenting your experience more fully
> > somewhere else or is this email your documentation of your process?
> 
> There already is some documentation at
> <URL:http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup>.
> 
> Since I use Ubuntu, I found this slightly more useful:
> <URL:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/ACPIWake?highlight=%28wakeup%29%7C%28acpi%29>

Indeed this document was very help full but it is not correct if you
want to use MythWelcome.

see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=463478&page=4

> 
> I am using SVN trunk, so some mythwelcome/mythshutdown settings have changed.
> 
> For my Abit motherboard, I found two things in those docs essential:
> * I disabled the wakeup feature in the BIOS setup.
> * I modified my hwclock.sh script so that the wakeup time is written
> to /proc/acpi/alarm twice after the hardware clock is set.
> >
> > I'm trying to get the same thing working, but Myth won't shut down even
> > when it reports that it's been idle for the requisite time (and no
> > recordings are scheduled and no frontends are running).
> 
> Yeah, I've been testing my setup and saw the same thing. I set a short
> idle timeout in mythtv-setup of 30s. My mythtvbackend log contains
> lines like "I'm idle now... shutdown will occur in 30 seconds." and
> "Waited more than 60 seconds for shutdown to complete - resetting idle
> time". I don't know if there's a bug in mythbackend or mythshutdown or
> what. However, it does eventually shut down, though it takes longer
> than it seems it should.
> 
> I've been using the hibernate command as the mythwelcome/mythshutdown
> shutdown command. It can use several different suspend methods
> including suspend to RAM and suspend2. Right now I'm wondering if
> mythbackend isn't expected to still exist after running a shutdown
> command. Maybe everything would be smoother if I shut down mythbackend
> before suspending and restarted it after resuming.
> --
> Jonathan Rogers
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