Revert back to home menu when idle

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Revert back to home menu when idle - wannesd - 2014-01-08

XBMC under Ubuntu.

Using top, I discovered that XBMC uses a lot of cpu power in the menus.

I used dirty regions, and tweaked aeon nox accordingly.
Now in my main menu, XBMC only uses 10% CPU, but in the TV and movie menus, it's a lot more, but I want to keep those menus as they are.

This box is always on, as it's also my fileserver.

I need a way to make XBMC auto-revert to the main menu, if it idles in a menu for 5 minutes.
eg: TV episode is playing, after it is done, it goes back to the season menu. I f no further input is given, after 5 minutes, I want it to go back to the main menu.

(using a wattmeter, I measured the difference between main menu idle and TV menu idle --> 40W difference, and as this is a always-on box, you can see the reason why I want this.)

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - un1versal - 2014-01-08

Debug log (wiki) Please.

I dont think you can do what you want unless you set PowerSaving in XBMC Settings/System#Power_saving (wiki) it can probably be done, I however no idea about how.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - negge - 2014-01-08

What happens if you use a screensaver in XBMC?

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - wannesd - 2014-01-08

I'm currently converting my data drives from ext4 to btrfs, so I can't produce a reliable log (data is inaccessible, so that would show up)
Neither can I measure the difference with screensaver on/off, CPU is at 100% right now due to the converting.

I always use screen dim instead of screensaver, which saves on energy consumed by tv. I also assume that would be less cpu intensive than a full-on screensaver?

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - un1versal - 2014-01-08

Disable screensaver altogether in xorg.conf and in xbmc screensaver still uses up cpu cycles. in xorg.conf add

Code:
Section "Extensions"

        option        "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER"        "false"

EndSection

idk what else to tell you unless you kill xbmc when you dont need it.

Without a log cat tell you anything else anyway.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - wannesd - 2014-01-08

Would it be possible at all for me to write a script that does this?

If menu is idle 5 minutes --> home screen.

Will disabling the screensaver also disable the screen-dim in XBMC?

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - un1versal - 2014-01-08

No, desable xbmc screensaver, and set the powersaving options to send display to sleep.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - negge - 2014-01-08

@uNiversal: closing the display doesn't make XBMC use less CPU I'm afraid, it will still render in the background.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - wannesd - 2014-01-08

Turning of the display just makes the TV freak out and display "Hdmi not connected - NOT SUPPORTED"

So that's not very elegant Rofl

I like the screen dimming, but cpu usage stays high when in those particular menus.
I just need a way to get out of them automatically. See, I'll remember to go back to main menu before turning off the tv, but I doubt my wife will. Or my 6 year old Big Grin

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - un1versal - 2014-01-08

You have edid/hdmi hanshake issues then, in any case I asked you for a debug log.

You can, make a "kill process on idle after X minutes in Linux - script, google it and you shall find.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - wannesd - 2014-01-08

(2014-01-08, 19:24)uNiversal Wrote: You have edid/hdmi hanshake issues then, in any case I asked you for a debug log.

Quote:I'm currently converting my data drives from ext4 to btrfs, so I can't produce a reliable log (data is inaccessible, so that would show up)
Neither can I measure the difference with screensaver on/off, CPU is at 100% right now due to the converting.

Can't right now, sorry. Sad

As soon as the filesystem is fully converted and drives are mounted again, I will run and post log.
Thanks for your time guys!

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - timovos - 2014-01-29

I'm having the same problem as you. Tried several potential fixes, but nothing works. It annoys me, because the CPU is taking 100% in any other menu than the main menu and the HTPC fans are going nuts and make noise. Pressing ESC makes them calm (CPU drops back to 10% in main menu).

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - booker88 - 2014-01-30

I was also getting high cpu usage (kubuntu64 12.04.3 on a G1610) so switched main skin from Aeon Nox to Arctic, and trimmed back on some addons. Xbmc idle at main menu is now 4% , and idling in menu's is 20-30%. Not a fix you are looking for , but might help while you track down possible causes for your 100% utilization.

(2014-01-29, 19:06)timovos Wrote: I'm having the same problem as you. Tried several potential fixes, but nothing works. It annoys me, because the CPU is taking 100% in any other menu than the main menu and the HTPC fans are going nuts and make noise. Pressing ESC makes them calm (CPU drops back to 10% in main menu).

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - timovos - 2014-01-31

Switching to Confluence or any other skin than Aeon (Nox AND MQ5) sadly fixed the problem for me.

RE: Revert back to home menu when idle - negge - 2014-01-31

That would suggest it's an issue with the skin. I don't think adding a hack to XBMC (option to go to the main menu when idle) is warranted for fixing a bunch of broken skins.