On 5/4/05, Max Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding is that simply prevents mythbackend from going idle > BEFORE a frontend has connected... and does nothing once it has. (And, > as mentioned, it's already unchecked on my system.)
Indeed. As I understand it you have to do a little more work outside of myth to make auto startup/shutdown work. I can post up my scripts if you like but it goes something like this: If you specify a startup script in mythtv-setup then that will receive "auto" or "user" on the command line depending on whether the backend is about to start a recording. Note you only get "auto" if the "block shutdown before client connect" is enabled. In the startup script I create or delete a file in the mythtv user's home directory. The .xsession script checks for the existence of this file and starts up the frontend if it's a "user" start. I have the power button on my remote hooked up in lirc to start the frontend if there's none running. That way if the box has booted automatically for a recording (and hence hasn't started mythfrontend) I can still use it. After manually booting the box I can just exit mythfrontend to have it shutdown automatically. James. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users