[mythtv-users] can't set wakealarm

[Peter Bennett]

On 08/11/2018 07:53 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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>
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 3:43 AM <mythtv-users at gorbag.com 
> <mailto:mythtv-users at gorbag.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:56:39 -0700
>     Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
>     <mailto:Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     > On 08/10/2018 06:59 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>     >
>     > The problem is not systemd. MythTV was working fine with Mint 18
>     > through 18.3, and those versions also had systemd.
>     >
>     > I have finally identified the problem. MythTV does not call
>     > setwakeup.sh if it does not find anything to record.
>     >
>     > This is a problem because if nothing else wakes up the backend
>     > system, mythfilldatabase will not be run, and the system will not
>     > notice new items in the schedule because it has an out of date
>     > schedule.
>     >
>     > MythTV should schedule a wakeup to run mythfilldatabase when it does
>     > not find anything else in its schedule. It should schedule a wakeup
>     > for mythfilldatabase anyway if the scheduled event would happen
>     after
>     > it runs out of schedule for any channel.
>     >
>
>     There is a program called mythwelcome that has a setting to allows two
>     forced wakeup periods. See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythwelcome.
>     These settings are obeyed even when mythwelcome is not being used. So
>     you only need to run mythwelcome to add a wakeup period, there is no
>     need to use it in normal use. It would be nice if the forced wakeup
>     period settings were added to mythfrontend's shutdown settings or
>     perhaps to mythtv-setup.
>
>     Steve
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> Or, just schedule a news type recording once a week.
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I suggest you set something up that runs at startup to schedule a wakeup 
for 3 am next day. This would be overridden if there was a recording 
scheduled that subsequently called the wakeup script. However that does 
not really solve the problem of a recording scheduled for a week away, 
which would then shut you down for the whole week. So you need a 
customized wakeup script that checks if the wakeup time is far in the 
future it sets up an earlier time.  My example --> 
https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/setwakeup.sh

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