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hi,
it happens twice the last few weeks that i forgot to shutdown my htpc before i left my home. it would be a nice feature, when i can set a certain time to shut down the pc when idling.
it's actually similar to the existing feature "Put display to sleep when idle" so i guess it's not hard to implement?!
thanks for this cool piece of software btw.
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i thought "shutdown function timer" means to shut down the system in general after a certain time - nothing to do wether its idling or not!
wiki has no description so far for these functions.
thanks for clarification!
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with "shutdown function timer" and upnp server enabled, will it also take effect when i am playing a video over upnp? this wouldn't be useful then.
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If your XBMC system is the UPnP server, then yes, it will shutdown when the timer has elapsed even if a UPnP client is viewing a video. You could disable "Shutdown function timer" whenever you wish to serve files to other computers in your network and then re-enable it when you are done. However, if you forget to restore the timer, then you're back to your original problem of having your XBMC system staying on.
If your XBMC system is the UPnP client, then it will not shutdown if you are viewing a video from a UPnP server.
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Hey everyone,
I also find this feature useful. The naming was a little bit weird, so I just checked wether it would do what I thought it might do. The problem is now, that idling is detected by xbmc activity only.
Now here's the deal: Most people use their xbmc machine as something else, too. For my home-made NAS for instance, I built my own idle timer script, that has certain watch-directories and IPs.
Meaning: If a certain IP is still pingable, don't shutdown. If a certain directory has still activity (something is downloading for example), don't shutdown. Any other case, shutdown after 5 retries per minute.
Something like that would be nice. Or exposing a file that just needs to be touched to delay shutdown even further? Is anything like that already possible?
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Make sure your settings level is set to advanced.