[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome and ACPI wake up
fb517255 at skynet.be
fb517255 at skynet.be
Mon Nov 12 17:21:55 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 17:59 +0000, Paul Harrison wrote:
> fb517255 at skynet.be wrote:
> > Ok as requested;
> >
> > I changed .gnomerc to
> > /home/mythtv/start.sh > /tmp/start.log 2>&1 &
> >
> > In start.log I found
> > mythtv: unexpected token in line /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc:596
> > mythtv: unexpected token in line /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc:596
> > I removed the line 596 but I don't suspect this being the problem of
> > mythwelcome
> >
> >
> > and start.sh has the following;
> > #!/bin/bash
> > /usr/bin/mythwelcome -v all > /tmp/mythwelcome.log
> >
> > Now that I use the full path to launch mythwelcome I have mythwelcome
> > and mythfrontend on my screen. At least I have something on my screen
> > now ;)
> >
> > Now why did mythwelcome launch the front-end as it was an auto start-up?
> > Can I check this somewhere?
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Matthews
> >
> Basically MythWelcome and MythShutdown were written to work together to
> co-ordinate the wakeup/shutdown process. When you replace mythshutdown
> with your own scripts you can break things.
>
> MythWelcome uses 'mythshutdown --startup' to determine if the computer
> was started automatically to record something or because one of the
> wakeup periods is about to start.
>
> mythshutdown --startup checks the "MythshutdownWakeupTime" setting in
> the database which should be set to the next wakeup time. If we are
> withing 15 minutes of that time then an automatic wakeup is assumed and
> mythfrontend wont be started by mythwelcome.
>
> The "MythshutdownWakeupTime" gets set when mythshutdown --shutdown is
> called by mythbackend just before shutting down the computer.
>
> I'm guessing that your scripts don't set the "MythshutdownWakeupTime"
> setting so mythshutdown --startup always thinks it was started by the user.
>
> I use nvram-wakeup but I'm sure it's possible to set things up to use
> ACPI and have everything work properly because I've applied several
> patches to make it possible to do just that. You just have to figure out
> how to plug you scripts into the mythshutdown process to do what you
> want :-)
>
> Paul H.
> ______________
This would mean that the following command isn't correctly working;
server halt command: sudo mythshutdown --shutdown
the shutdown is working, can I verify if the value
"MythshutdownWakeupTime" is set correctly?
by the way when I run mythshutdown --startup I have no output.
We are getting closer ;)
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