[vdr] Re: Is there a shutdown delay for VDR?

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Andreas Breitenbach (AB) wrote:

AB> Hi,
AB> 
AB> in the config menu of VDR (1.2.6) you can set an inactive timeout time
AB> and a minimum user timeout to shut down the VDR (and PC) automatically.
AB> 
AB> This means if nobody presses any key and the VDR has been started with
AB> nvram it shuts down immediately after a recording has finished.
AB> 
AB> In my installation I have activated noad and autocutter. After a recording
AB> has finished noad and autocutter treats the recording.
AB> If the vdr shuts down the PC, noad or autocutter is interrupted.

in the shutdown script you can check if one of them is running and just
exit the shutdown script at that point.  (see in vdrshutdown in the
nvram-wakeup package for an example how to do it)


AB> Is there a way to delay the shutdown e.g. for 5 minutes to let noad/autocutter
AB> finish its tasks?

what you _could_ do (but that won't fit to every situation), is calling 
'svdrpsend HITK Power' after finishing noad.


c ya
        Sergei
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