[mythtv-users] Carbon Footprint

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Karl Dietz
<dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>wrote:

> On 28.08.2013 22:33, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>>     If I understand it correctly using UTC or not is a decision that is
>>     mostly made depending on presence of other (Windows) operating systems
>>     dual-booting on the same hardware.
>> I do have dual boot, so I should opt for RTC?
>>
>
> according to the other mail you can choose to set your hardware clock
> chip to:
>  * local wall clock time and add the conversion between UTC and local
>    time to your MythTV shutdown script
>  * UTC without any calculations on the linux side, but needs a registry
>    hack for windows (see Chris' mail, this option is new to me)
>
>
>  I don't get the option for S5, just 1,2,3, or auto, and terminal output
>> says I can wake from S4...more confusion
>>
>
> S5 is what happens when you tell the computer to power off instead of
> some kind of sleeping.
>
>
>        * your tuners support whichever power saving state you decide on (do
>>         they need special fiddling to come back to working state?)
>>
>> Don't know how to do that
>>
>
> look for known issues with your selected hardware. Maybe on linuxtv or
> search the internet for problems reported by others.


Would my experience with powering off during nights when I know I'll be up
before the next recording indicate that my hardware is OK with S5?

>
>
>        * MythTV likes whatever state you decide on. hint: full shutdown is
>>         known to work well :-)
>>
>> Don't know how to do this either
>>
>
> follow bug reports and user discussion wrt hibernate etc. but plain old
> turn off and on is known to work. I have no idea how the backend likes
> it if the system time suddenly jumps ahead some hours/days.
>
>
> I'd just try if the system comes back up when you set an alarm in
> 5 minutes and shut down. If that doesn't work disable the update of the
> hwclock on shutdown, see the howto you referred to. And only if that
> does not work start looking into the other options.
>
>
> Regards,
> Karl
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I'm thinking I'll toggle to auto, rather than S1,2,or3; should give me the
best shot for the first test anyway.

Thanks, Daryl
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