[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome Wakeup Periods - do they need to be in order?

Paul Mason latepaul at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 01:30:57 UTC 2007


On 22/11/2007, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Mason wrote:
> > At the beginning of the month I set up my mythtv box to
> > shutdown/wakeup automatically using ACPI, mythshutdown and
> > mythwelcome. Prior to that it was running 24/7.
> >
> > I have a cron job which does a db backup, optimize, xfs defrag etc -
> > which is set to run daily at 3am. In order to allow for this I've set
> > one of the wake-up periods to 2:45 - 3:45. I've also put a
> > "mythshutdown --lock" at the top of my script and a "mythshutdown
> > --unlock" at the bottom.
> >
> > I use the other wake-up period to have the box awake during my main
> > viewing period - 19:00 - 23:59 (the box is both BE and FE).
> >
> > So far so good. I set it up following the wiki with very little
> > trouble and it's been working perfectly. Or so I thought. It always
> > wakes up for recordings, it always wakes up for 19:00 but it hasn't
> > been waking up for 2:45. I hadn't realised this until last night
> > because often it had been still awake running a job after a recording,
> > so the backups were getting done (mostly).
> >
> > Anyway I've been looking into this, searching the archives of this
> > list, the wiki and elsewhere and I can't find any report of a similar
> > problem, or any note of why one of the wakeup periods would work but
> > not the other. The script I use to set the wakeup time in the BIOS
> > writes to a log, so I can see that it never gets called for the 2:45
> > wakeup.
> >
> > The only thought I had was whether the wakeup periods need to be in
> > order i.e. at the moment period1 is 19:00 - 23:59 and period2 is 02:45
> > - 03:45 - perhaps I need to switch them? I'll try that tonight in any
> > case.
> >
> > I'm running SVN trunk from about a couple months ago. (I also searched
> > Trac but didn't find anything on this)
> >
> > --
> > Paul Mason
>
> I wasn't aware of having to have the wakeup periods in the correct order
> but it looks like you could be right. Basically what happens is if  the
> start times for both daily wakeup periods has passed for today then the
> next wake time will be set to the first daily wakeup time tomorrow even
> if the second daily wakeup time is before the first. There should really
> be a check to make sure that the earliest daily wakeup time is used.
> Swapping the period around should fix things for now.



Thanks. Yes that confirms what I just discovered. It's one of those things
that doesn't necessarily need fixing  but it perhaps needs documenting. So I
updated the wiki to reflect this.

Thanks again
-- 
Paul Mason
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