[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome always starts the frontend

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 19:10:09 UTC 2009


2009/10/7 Roy Lofthouse <lofty69 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/7  <voidtrance at comcast.net>:
>> Yes, it is. However, according to the little help text that shows up when
>> the option is highlighted,
>> mythwelcome should only start the frontend if it determines that the machine
>> was started manually
>> (and not because there is a recording about to start).
>> The problem is that it always thinks that it has been started manually.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Roy Lofthouse" <lofty69 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:44:35 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythwelcome always starts the frontend
>>
>> 2009/10/7  <voidtrance at comcast.net>:
>>> I have noticed that no matter whether my myth box has been started
>>> manually
>>> or automatically, mythwelcome
>>> always starts the frontend. Of course, this prevents the autoshutdown from
>>> executing once the recording is done
>>> so I am hoping that someone can help me solve my problem.
>>>
>>> I have configured my backend to not wait for a connection before
>>> autoshutdown because I want it to be able to
>>> wake-up in the middle of the night (for example), record my show, and then
>>> shutdown again. I have also configured
>>> mythwelcome to start the frontend automatically when it determines that
>>> the
>>> machine has not been woken up
>>> for a recording.
>>> Unfortunately, mythwelcome always thinks that the machine has been
>>> manually
>>> started.
>>>
>>> Is there any advice that anyone can give me? Thank you.
>>>
>>> -- Mitko
>>>
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>>
>> There's an option in mythfrontend settings (Menu or Info button) to
>> auto start frontend.. is that checked?
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>
> sorry you did say that in your original post..
>
> never noticed the text before.. I have mine unchecked on my server,
> try unchecking it and then running mythshutdown -p -v all on your
> client and see what value it is returning (never actually ran this on
> a frontend only so not sure if it will work)..
>

Yours should work as it's a backend/frontend and you should get a
result that says:

"looks like we were started manually"

if you get that after a reboot with the auto start unchecked then
there may be an issue with mythwelcome.


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