[mythtv-users] backend suspend and wake

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Wed Mar 28 00:40:38 UTC 2012


On 28/03/2012 11:15 AM, Monkey Pet wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has scripted up a suspend and wakeup script 
> for their mythbackend.  Basically, I want to suspend the backend until 
> the next time the DVR needs to record something.  This can done using 
> rtcwake and feeding it the time to wake up.  I am guessing that I only 
> need the earliest next recording time and wake up before that. 
>  Wondering what's the easiest way to obtain that time.  Anyways, any 
> suggestions would be appreciated.  Otherwise, I will just need to do 
> mysql queries for the upcoming recordings, then reformat the time to 
> time_t and feed that into rtcwake.  Any other caveats I should be 
> concerned about?
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup



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