[mythtv-users] Before I tear my hair out can a slave BE...

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Mon Mar 02, 2009 at 11:14:11AM -0500, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:

> > My patch allows the scheduler to schedule recordings on slaves
> > that the master has put to sleep.  [...]
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> When nothing is recording, it sounds like it should be possible to put the
> master backend asleep as well, using the bios wakeup feature to wake it up a

I believe this functionality already exists, but I've never used it.

> Also, what happens if a slave which has recordings stored on it has been put
> to sleep, and then a frontend wants to play a recording stored on that
> slave?

In your case, the recordings would be unavailable while the slave is asleep.
The master will not wakeup a slave so someone can access a file stored on
the slave.  That would be quite annoying with the preview pixmap and
video on the Watch Recordings screen.  The best way to use the feature
is to have the slaves record to a network share so their recordings
are still accessible via the master or possibly directly on the frontends
if the frontends also mount that shared storage.

--
Chris