On 22 Dec 2009, at 19:39, Steffen Barszus wrote:
Hi !
Looks like vdr's shutdownskript hook is not properly working. Since it seems to be undocumented in vdr man page i took my information from here:
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/C%27t-VDR_-_Hooks
#!/bin/sh # Simple ACPI shutdown hook # $1 : Next timer seconds from 1970 from 1970/01/01, UTC # $2 : Next timer seconds from now # $3 : Next timer title # $4 : Shutdown forced
If the time is far enough in the future this is correct, if it is only few minutes in the future it gets horribly wrong (now +30 minutes or something similar) (The argument $1 is supplied wrong to the script)
This is vdr 1.7.10 . I remember that some people have written this is a known problem. But why is it happening ? Has somebody debugged this allready ?
From the MANUAL:
Min. event timeout = 30 Min. user inactivity = 300 If the command line option '-s' has been set, VDR will automatically shutdown the computer if the next timer event is at least MinEventTimeout minutes in the future, and the user has been inactive for at least MinUserInactivity minutes. Setting MinUserInactivity to 0 disables the automatic shutdown, while still retaining the possibility to manually shutdown the computer.
There is your 30 mins. No bug, a 'feature'.
My VDR is set to these defaults. If I try to shutdown before 30 mins, I am prompted by VDR to press Power again to FORCE shutdown. If this is the case I cannot recall exactly but I think the wakeup is set to 30 mins from the forced shutdown, rather than the next timer.
If I recall a mailing list discussion there was an argument along the lines that if a timer was set to record in less than a certain value, 30 mins by default, it is 'cheaper' in terms of power and hardware shutdown/restart cycle degradation to keep the computer running.
I have not played with this setting so I cannot comment on VDR behaviour with a lower setting for this value. Please report back if you experiment.
Seasons Greetings,
Ian.