[mythtv-users] Waking up the Backend from the internet and locking it

[David Watkins]

> An ugly work-around would be to
> quickly set something to record but if a more elegant solution exists it
> would be preferred. If it does not exist perhaps this is a good feature
> suggestion? Perhaps a toggle button in the mythweb page header?

Not sure if this is more elegant or not but it's what I do....

There's a mythbackend setting to call a wakeupscript on startup.
Mythbackend passes this script a parameter set to "AUTO" or "USER" (I
think) depending on whether that backend woke to make a
recording(auto) or due to a user start (eg WOL).

I use this script to automatically start a local frontend if the
backend was started manually, which then keeps the backend up.

If you don't use your backend as a frontend then you've now got a
problem of how to shut down it down.  My machine is a combined FE/BE
so the frontend will get used eventually, and if I'm remote I normally
ssh in anyway, so I can just kill the frontend process when I'm
finished.