[mythtv-users] Master backend always on, shutdown/wakeup slave?

[Anthony Messina]

I've been searching through the wiki and various google results to see if what 
I'm imagining is possible/plausible. I've gone through Mythwelcome, etc. and 
previous to this adventure had a successful setup with one master, 
acpi-wakeup, with two separate frontends, etc.

Latest adventure...
I have an "in the basement" master backend that records from a hdhomerun and 
also has some other, non-MythTV functions, so I'd like that to stay on all 
the time. I just set up a slave backend that must reside in my condo where 
the cable connection is and this backend uses the cablebox-lirc-pvr350 setup. 
this slave backend is also my primary frontend.

I would like to be able to exit the frontend on the slave, allowing it to 
shutdown whenever it will not be recording on the pvr350 and have the master 
wake this slave when a recording that needs to record on the pvr350 is about 
to begin.

It seemed like this was sensible, until after I had configured both the master 
and slave backend.  The result is that if the slave backend is shutdown, the 
master (at least in MythWeb's backend status page) does not list the upcoming 
recordings that would have occurred on the slave, but simply lists the slave 
as disconnected.  Will the master wake the slave in time for those 
recordings?  I did set the slave wakeup command in the master backend's 
setup.

Am i doing something/setting up something incorrectly, or is 
the "master-always-on-slave-sometimes-on" not supported?
-- 
Anthony -  http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery
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