[mythtv-users] Best front-end machine?

[Kris B.]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:36 -0400, "Joey Morris" <rjmorris at nc.rr.com>
wrote:

> > 
> > I am always curious to find out how people suspend and what their
> > timeouts are...  would you mind sharing?
> > 
> > At the moment, I just run my computer 24/7 on the front end, but this is
> > a small form factor desktop, so it does hog energy.
> > 
> > I have my Live TV time out at 1.5 hrs, but I still haven't dabbled in
> > any suspending yet.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "how" people suspend, but I
> suspend by mapping the Power key on my remote to the command sudo
> pm-suspend (using irexec). Or I choose Suspend from the desktop menu
> if I'm outside of MythTV at the time. No timeouts are involved.

That's exactly what I mean... you suspend with a key, no timeouts or
anything like that.   I still haven't decided if I am going to just shut
off the machine Midnight to Six, or timeout, or what... just wanted to
see what you decided on.


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  Kris B.
  krisbee at krisbee.com