[mythtv-users] mythshutdown on a slave backend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/15/2009 10:45 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 2:59 PM -0400 10/14/09, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 10/14/2009 02:10 PM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>>> If I run "mythshutdown -s" (0.22-fixes) on the SBE, it seems to ask 
>>> the MBE when shutdown is possible, which is not what I want; the 
>>> value it returns seems to consider ALL recordings, not just the ones 
>>> that are coming up on the SBE, itself.
>>>
>>> Is what I'm trying to do possible?
>> You're doing it the master backend way.  You need to do:
>>
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/373731#373731
> Thanks, that's a big help. But it seems to rely on WOL, which I can't 
> get to work with the NIC in the SBE. Is there any way to have it use 
> RTC wakeup?

No.  :(

> That does work for me.
>
> (Granted, if the SBE is already asleep and someone adds a new program 
> to record that relies it, it won't be awakened in time--but that's an 
> understandable limitation.) 

Which is why it was designed for wakeonlan.

I'm not sure if there's a way to get "the old way" working with RTC 
wakeup for remote backends.  I'll leave you in the more-capable hands of 
others who may have tried or succeeded.

Mike