[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

[Anthony Giggins]

On 22 July 2011 10:44, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:57:27 +1000, Anthony Giggins
> <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
> > On 22 July 2011 00:28, Raymond Wagner  wrote:
> >  On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:24:33 -0400, John Drescher
> >  wrote:
> >  >> I'm interested in setting it up because I need access to my system
> >  >> throughout the day for business remotely, but not the media which is
> > on
> >  >> the
> >  >> bigger disks, so figure I might as well set them to spin down being
> >  idle.
> >  >> Thanks for any help
> >  >
> >  > The biggest problem with spindown in mythtv is getting mythtv to stop
> >  > looking at drives periodically. Unless something changed recently one
> >  > requirement was to disable the upnp server in mythtv.
> >
> >  The UPnP server defaults to scanning for new video content every 30
> >  minutes.  This has been removed in upcoming 0.25.  In 0.24, you either
> > need to increase the timeout, or disable UPNP on the command line.
> >  _______________________________________________
> >
> > Has UPNP finally gone into storage groups?
>
> Video access in the UPnP server now uses MythVideo content, relying on the
> content scanners in the frontend or backend to keep it up to date.  The old
> UPnP scanner that only scanned the local folder definitions on that host,
> and stored a list of content in its own table, has been removed.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
Thats awesome, I'm guessing this wont be backported to 0.24.1-fixes?

Anthony
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