<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000'>The myth protocol could add a heartbeat. Once a minute, the frontend (while watching live TV) sends a 'ping' to the backend. If the backend doesn't get 2 pings in a row, it assumes the frontend is gone, and stops live tv. I don't know enough about the protocol, but something like this should be possible.<br><br>Gerald<br><br>----- "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> 2009/6/10 ryan patterson <ryan.goat@gmail.com>:<br>> > Maybe you could teach your wife to not randomly turn off the computer<br>> > without properly shutting it down?<br>> <br>> What an unkind comment.<br>> <br>> Especially as I've seen it happening even if you do quit the frontend.<br>> <br>> In any case; you can't expect non-technical people watching TV, that<br>> this isn't a TV where you can just turn it off and walk away...<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br>> </div></body></html>