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Apr 13, 2012, 5:18 PM

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Frontend idle shutdown (was: RE: [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: 7867d7efb by Stuart Morgan (stuartm))

> On 12-02-01 08:37 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
> >
> > IMHO, it would be better if it worked thus;
> >
> > Frontend Only Machine:
> > If Frontend idle for "Idle Time" then run "Frontend Idle
> > Script", that could either shutdown/hibernate/suspend the machine or run
> > some other task (cant think of what, but good if user could configure it
> > how they want, not just hard coded shutdown)
>
> Yes! Totally agree. I've been wanting _real_ FE idleness handling (as
> opposed to my hack which looks at GPU interrupts) for a year or two now.
>
> By real, of course that's idleness as determined by MFE not playing
> anything or being interacted with at a menu (although that gives me an
> idea about how to monitor LIRC and factor that into my FE idleness hack
> script).
>
> And of course, configurable idle action, just as it is for the BE, but
> it really ought to inform the BE that it's idle rather than the BE then
> having to have some sort of FE inactivity timer to decide that it's
> idle. Although the BE should also have such an inactivity timer to
> account for FEs that just go AWOL.

I've created a ticket #10596 with a patch to do this.

It has a user configurable action for when the idle time expires. You can quit the frontend, run a shell command (or /sbin/halt), or enter the standby screen.

Please have a look. I've been using for several weeks now and it's working nicely. I have 3 frontend-only systems and I used to have to run a cron job to monitor frontend activity for shutdown but it wasn't very user friendly.

Comments welcome.

michael at thewatsonfamily

Apr 14, 2012, 2:30 AM

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Re: Frontend idle shutdown (was: RE: [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: 7867d7efb by Stuart Morgan (stuartm)) [In reply to]

On 14/04/2012 10:18 AM, Yves Cayer wrote:
>> On 12-02-01 08:37 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
>> >
>> > IMHO, it would be better if it worked thus;
>> >
>> > Frontend Only Machine:
>> > If Frontend idle for "Idle Time" then run "Frontend Idle
>> > Script", that could either shutdown/hibernate/suspend the machine or
>> run
>> > some other task (cant think of what, but good if user could
>> configure it
>> > how they want, not just hard coded shutdown)
>>
>> Yes! Totally agree. I've been wanting _real_ FE idleness handling (as
>> opposed to my hack which looks at GPU interrupts) for a year or two now.
>>
>> By real, of course that's idleness as determined by MFE not playing
>> anything or being interacted with at a menu (although that gives me an
>> idea about how to monitor LIRC and factor that into my FE idleness hack
>> script).
>>
>> And of course, configurable idle action, just as it is for the BE, but
>> it really ought to inform the BE that it's idle rather than the BE then
>> having to have some sort of FE inactivity timer to decide that it's
>> idle. Although the BE should also have such an inactivity timer to
>> account for FEs that just go AWOL.
>
> I've created a ticket #10596 with a patch to do this.
>
> It has a user configurable action for when the idle time expires. You
> can quit the frontend, run a shell command (or /sbin/halt), or enter
> the standby screen.
>
> Please have a look. I've been using for several weeks now and it's
> working nicely. I have 3 frontend-only systems and I used to have to
> run a cron job to monitor frontend activity for shutdown but it wasn't
> very user friendly.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
>
Awesome. Is this apart of 0.25 (or fixes-0.25) or whatever 0.25 is
called now? ie: Will I receive it with a Ubuntu mythrepo update?
Where is the setup options located?
Will it be compatible with a SBE/FE ?

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