[mythtv-users] mythbackend idle timeout does not start

[John Veness]

Gary Dawes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I managed to get the acpi shutdown & wakeup working without too  much 
> difficulty, however I have a problem with the backend not starting the 
> Idle countdown. Mythwelcome, reports that the backend is idle, but 
> nothing happens. If I restart the backend, it immeadiately starts the 
> countdown, and then everything works as advertised.
> 
> I have scoured the lists, checked my program schedules, ran repairs on 
> the DB in case there was a problem there, and I'm now at a dead end. I'm 
> running 0.20.20060828-3 (from the status page)  on knoppmyth R5E50 if it 
> helps.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gaz

Are you shutting down fully (i.e. killing all processes and later 
starting up Linux from nothing), or suspending to ram or disk? If you 
are suspending to ram/disk then tou may have hit the problem I found, 
which is that once mythbackend has gone through the countdown, it will 
never start the countdown again. I found you needed to kill mythbackend 
as part of your suspend script (or resume script I suppose) before it 
would work.

If there's a more elegant way of prodding mythbackend so that it will 
allow itself to start the countdown again, then I'd be pleased to hear it.

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user