[mythtv-users] Little qnap for myth recordings

Scott Chevalley avalon at osguru.org
Mon Mar 11 16:35:59 UTC 2013


On 3/11/13 12:19 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com
> <mailto:dmfrey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gregcope at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         On 11 March 2013 12:49, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com
>         <mailto:dmfrey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             What I see happening, when I go to watch a video, it will attempt to
>             start the video and, if the qnap is asleep, the myth fe will just
>             dump back to the videos screen.  Then I have to start it again and
>             it plays fine as they drives in the qnap have now woken up. 
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>         So sounds like a Myth player timeout.
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>         Anyone any ideas on increasing the myth client player timeout to cope
>         with NAS devices that might be asleep?
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>                 I was looking to make the storage more of a "service".
>                  Reasoning I am upgrading my general home server because
>                 Mythbuntu is out of date, and I have to touch loads of things,
>                 including moving all the share around/setting things up.  So
>                 wanted to go black box.
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>             That is how I am using it as well.  Just mount up over nfs and map
>             videos, photos, music to the respective storage groups.
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>         Ah - good.
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>         Greg
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>     I sent QNAP a request to see if that timeout that triggers the drives to go
>     to sleep is configurable?  Will report back when/if they responds.
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> Response from QNAP:
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> Dear Daniel,
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> No. it is control by the OS.
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> Tks.
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I have a synology ds412 which has settings for sleep times.  I saw the same
behavior on the ds412 when trying to watch a recording so I just disabled sleep
mode.

If you don't mind keeping the QNAP on all the time, then you can find out the
sleep timeout and set up a cron job to run one minute sooner than the sleep
timeout to write and delete a file on the nfs share on the QNAP to keep it from
sleeping.

Scott




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