[mythtv-users] Little qnap for myth recordings

[Tom Lichti]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Scott Chevalley <avalon at osguru.org> wrote:

> On 3/11/13 12:19 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com
> > <mailto:dmfrey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >     On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:gregcope at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >         On 11 March 2013 12:49, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com
> >         <mailto:dmfrey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >
> >             What I see happening, when I go to watch a video, it will
> attempt to
> >             start the video and, if the qnap is asleep, the myth fe will
> just
> >             dump back to the videos screen.  Then I have to start it
> again and
> >             it plays fine as they drives in the qnap have now woken up.
> >
> >
> >         So sounds like a Myth player timeout.
> >
> >         Anyone any ideas on increasing the myth client player timeout to
> cope
> >         with NAS devices that might be asleep?
> >
> >
> >
> >                 I was looking to make the storage more of a "service".
> >                  Reasoning I am upgrading my general home server because
> >                 Mythbuntu is out of date, and I have to touch loads of
> things,
> >                 including moving all the share around/setting things up.
>  So
> >                 wanted to go black box.
> >
> >
> >             That is how I am using it as well.  Just mount up over nfs
> and map
> >             videos, photos, music to the respective storage groups.
> >
> >
> >         Ah - good.
> >
> >         Greg
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> >     I sent QNAP a request to see if that timeout that triggers the
> drives to go
> >     to sleep is configurable?  Will report back when/if they responds.
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> > Response from QNAP:
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> > Dear Daniel,
> >
> > No. it is control by the OS.
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> > Tks.
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> I have a synology ds412 which has settings for sleep times.  I saw the same
> behavior on the ds412 when trying to watch a recording so I just disabled
> sleep
> mode.
>
> If you don't mind keeping the QNAP on all the time, then you can find out
> the
> sleep timeout and set up a cron job to run one minute sooner than the sleep
> timeout to write and delete a file on the nfs share on the QNAP to keep it
> from
> sleeping.
>
>
It would probably make more sense to do this at the OS level using hdparm:

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/3TB-Barracuda-STBD3000100-Making-Weird-quot-chirp-quot-Sound/m-p/160778

Look for post 209 near the bottom of the page.

Tom
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