<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Just thinking out loud but it seems to me the backend needs to stay running. How else is an upcoming recording going to happen?<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 8/25/08, Petr Stehlík <i><pstehlik@sophics.cz></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Petr Stehlík <pstehlik@sophics.cz><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv] backend idle shutdown even with connected frontends<br>To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev@mythtv.org><br>Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 8:03 AM<br><br><pre>Maatt píše v Po 25. 08. 2008 v 04:10 -0700:<br>> I think i see what you're saying. However, I'm suspending to ram<br>so<br>> there is no reason to shutdown the frontend (backend and frontend all<br>> on one machine).<br>> <br>> I've got a working patch -- it doen't reset the
timeout on remote<br>> presses in the GUI but its good enough for me.<br><br>What I am saying is that the backend can see when no frontend is<br>connected so instead of extending the backend with detection of idle<br>frontends you can simply _disconnect_ the idle frontends.<br><br>I have found a working solution in the user mailing list that simply<br>makes use of xscreensaver -watch. I have slightly extended it and it's<br>working real nicely.<br><br>I realize that quitting mythfrontend to MythWelcome screen before the<br>suspend to ram might be an unnecessary step for you so perhaps you could<br>reuse the xscreensaver -watch idea for sending the ALLOW_SHUTDOWN<br>message?<br><br>Petr<br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>