[mythtv-users] Encoder (slave) "currently not connected" or "currently asleep"?

[Ma Begaj]

2009/11/3 Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org>:
> * On Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 08:02:40AM +0100, Ma Begaj wrote:
>> > In essence, if you use the on-demand wakup/shutdown functionality for slave
>> > backends, don't shut them down yourself, you need to let the master backend
>> > tell the slave to shutdown.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks. Helpful as always.
>
> One other thing I didn't mention.  It is on my TODO list to add a way to allow
> a slave backend to tell the master that it is going to sleep, so you could
> shutdown the slave and have the master wake it back up again.  This is
> primarily for combination FE/SBE machines, so the user can shutdown the
> machine when done use the FE and have the master wake the slave back up if
> necessary to record something new.
>
>

That would useful because I am shutting down slave backend manually
because this box is also a frontend.