[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

[Raymond Wagner]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:24:33 -0400, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> I'm interested in setting it up because I need access to my system
>> throughout the day for business remotely, but not the media which is on
>> the
>> bigger disks, so figure I might as well set them to spin down being
idle.
>> Thanks for any help
> 
> The biggest problem with spindown in mythtv is getting mythtv to stop
> looking at drives periodically. Unless something changed recently one
> requirement was to disable the upnp server in mythtv.

The UPnP server defaults to scanning for new video content every 30
minutes.  This has been removed in upcoming 0.25.  In 0.24, you either need
to increase the timeout, or disable UPNP on the command line.