[mythtv-users] Stabalizing Firewire?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue May 8 13:22:19 UTC 2007


On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that firewire support is flaky at best.  But -- I still
> need it for premium highdef channels.
>
> So -- Does anyone have any ideas how to stabalize it?  I'm thinking
> reboot it and my backend every once in a while.  But -- how can I tell
> when the backend is idle?
>
> I'm thinking of an algorithm something like this:
>
> If it is between 2:00AM and 4:00AM
>    And, there are no recordings scheduled in the next 15 minutes
> then
>    Turn off STB.
>     Reboot
> end
>
> (Part of my mythbackend startup script turns the STB back on.)
>
> The only other thing I can think of is to modify my turn-on script to
> run firewire_tester to make sure we have ptp connectivity working.
>
>
> So -- if the above algorithm is sound:
>    How can I tell if there are recordings pending?  Play with SQL in the
> script?

are you running SVN?


-- 
Steve
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