lesburg at gmail
Dec 9, 2007, 5:43 PM
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Apple TV support (heartbeat to riptide/watchdog)?
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Hi all. I am not a good enough programmer to do this myself, but I am
wondering if anyone is intrepid enough to give this a shot.
First, the rationale: the Apple TV is a great platform to run mythfrontend.
However, there is a "heartbeat" that is issued by the normally-running
Finder process every minute or so. If the system (riptide and watchdog
processes, I believe) don't get a heartbeat for 5 minutes, the machine
reboots. For mythfrontend to run, the Finder must be quit. I have been
unable to disable the ripstop/watchdog process to stop the rebooting.
Now, the potential solution: if mythfrontend issued an equivalent heartbeat,
then the machine wouldn't reboot. There is a wealth of information
available at http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Watchdog. Again, I wish I could
do this myself, but alas I need to ask for help.
-cal
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