[mythtv-users] power savings

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Apr 23 06:22:00 UTC 2014


On 4/22/2014 11:01 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
> So I have couple of G1610 based font ends. I had been running arch linux
> on them as front ends for my  mythtv backend. Do you guys have any power
> savings tips ?
> I had installed windows 8.1 on my spare ssd and power saving ability
> seem amazing compared to linux. I am running xbmc on it and my frontend
> goes to deep sleep/hybernation  when not used. On the same hardware
> linux will turnoff screen spindown hard drive but it seems windows does
> it so much better. When I suspend my frontend running xbmc on linux and
> then resume it i can play movies, tv shows and recorded tv but not live
> tv I have to restart xbmc in order to get live tv working again.For some
> reason mythtv  backend and xbmc can't talk to eachother after resume.
> Windows 8.1 and xbmc dont have such problem.

Does the official frontend experience this same issue?



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