[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome always starts mythfrontend on boot.

[Chris Simmons]

Hopefully someone can help me, I've had automatic shutdown/startup 
mostly working for some time but I've never been able to persuade it to 
not start the frontend on startup.

My system is a combined fontend/backend that automatically starts 
mythwelcome on boot.  What I'd ideally like to do is this:-

1) Mythwelcome starts frontend if user turns machine on
2) Mythwelcome doesn't start frontend if auto-starts for scheduled 
recording - and hence will shut down when the recording finishes.
3) Auto-shutdowns when idle: sets the wakeup time for the next recording 
using rtc and shuts the machine down.

So I've got 1) and 3) working but it *always* starts the frontend so 2) 
never happens, meaning it tends to stay on all night if it wakes up to 
record something, say.  I got the impression that this isn't supposed to 
happen as it renders the whole exercise somewhat pointless...

I've tried to follow the settings in the wiki 
(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup) towards the bottom 
for rtc with no luck but maybe I spannered it up.  I've tried other 
settings too, its all quite confusing as there's seemingly two places 
you can configure all this, one using mythtv-setup and another using 
mythshutdown --setup and its as clear as mud what they do, which are 
necessary etc.

Also I've set the 'Startup command' in mythtv-setup to dump the $status 
to a file and it will contain "auto" some (all?) of the time.  I 
presumed this is what mythwelcome is using to decide whether to start 
the frontend but who knows?

Thanks for your help!

Chris.