Could you not just incorporate the use of an sh script to call a reboot of the box (or, presumably, the backend)? Jarod has done something similar for his front end
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php It's about halfway down the page under "Make Myth even more wife-friendly, aka make the power button do something more useful" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Kremser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software throughmyth > John, you speak of what is happening to me, As it is setup right now i > don't have a keyboard connected to the computer so i was looking for a > way to either restart mythbackend through the myth interface (as menu > option) or restart the whole system which i have been doing through a > ssh session from another room which was kind of a hassle. The swatch > seems to be what would be perfect for me, any ideas where i could > learn more about it? > > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:08:11 -0600, John Williams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not sure exactly what you're doing. How are you deleting these > > > recordings exactly? Are you deleting them by hand, or something? > > > > > > You should be able to delete recordings under the Manage Recordings > > > menu which deletes the files from disk and updates the mythtv > > > database. You certainly shouldn't need to reboot afterwards. > > > > I can speak to what I've seen. If I delete a recording from the view > > recordings menu while a program is recording my backend crashes. If he > > is new enough not to know how to restart the backend then a reboot > > will be the only fix. > > > > Yuo can restart mythbackend using (/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart) > > from the command line. > > > > There is a log file monitoring tool called swatch that some people are > > using to monitor for the crash and restart the backend if it crashes. > > I haven't figured out where to put the entry to make swatch run at > > startup so mine isn't working. once I spend some time to figure this > > out I'll be better off. Right now I just am not deleting from the view > > recordings page, and especially during a recording. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
