[mythtv-users] Livetv idle timer in 0.21: where to set?

[Florian Bittner]

Am Donnerstag 13.März 2008 12:42:40 schrieb Ronald Frazier:
> Interesting. I had no idea this feature even existed, but doing a
> quick search of the code I found it. Glancing at the code, it appears
> to make sense and should work, but obviously I've never tried it, so
> no guarantee that this is a finished, working feature.
>
> Looking at the code, there is no place to set this in the GUI. You
> will need to insert it into the database directly (in the settings
> table). The setting name is LiveTVIdleTimeout, and the value is the
> number of minutes after which to timeout.You can do that using the
> following SQL command (replace <X> with the number of minutes you want
> to set the timeout to, and replace <Y> with the hostname of your
> frontend).
>
> INSERT INTO `mythconverg`.`settings` (`value` ,`data` ,`hostname`)
> VALUES ('LiveTVIdleTimeout', '<X>', '<Y>');

Thanks, tried it and it works. With 0.20.2 sometimes a frontend powered off 
but livetv continued and 2 days later backend crashed. So this option is not 
bad i think. I set it for all frontends to 300 min = 5 h.

Flo