Bug Gotham keeping NAS awake
#1
Hi,

I have the idea that my RPi with XBian (Gotham RC1) is keeping my NAS awake.
Before I started using Gotham, my NAS (Synology DS213) would be asleep most of the time, only waking to search for new
episodes (SickBeard) or when I access the shares.

Nowadays, it very rarely sleeps at all.
Since I've been updating my NAS's firmware to DSM 5.0 I blamed the new firmware, but I've been noticing something pretty strange lately:
I use my RPi/XBMC to watch League of Legends streams quite regularly. Whenever I watch a stream, the NAS hibernates ~15-20 minutes later (as set up in my NAS-firmware).
The strange thing is, as soon as I stop the stream, the NAS's HDD spins up, I can hear that. As if XBMC constantly accesses the shares.

Someone else also noticed this a couple of weeks ago (http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?...3#pid99863) but apart from that, I can't find any other people with the same problem.

Does anyone have any idea how I can trace the root-cause of this?
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#2
WOL or some addon that is constantly accessing the disks.
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#3
Could be, but I can't figure out which addon that would be.

I'm not using a WOL-addon (afaik).

Is there any log I can check to see which addon is accessing the disks?
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#4
WOL is part of Gotham settings. Not an addon.
disable all addons and start searching which one.
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#5
Thanks for the info.

I found this page http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Auto_wake_on_lan
I run MySQL on my NAS. Looks like disabling this could prevent the issue, correct?

Also, since Frodo didn't have this feature, disabling this wouldn't have any negative influence on my system, cause Frodo worked fine too.
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#6
Okay, I found the culprit.
It's within the settings of http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...in_Widgets
There's a settings (enabled by default) that randomizes the databases for some reason every 10 minutes.

If (like I do) you run your XBMC database on your NAS (MySQL) this means that every 10 minutes your XBMC-device accesses your NAS, preventing hibernation.
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#7
Sorry for digging this old thread up, but that is exactly the solution for the problem i had.

Thank you @Smultie for posting your solution.
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#8
(2014-05-05, 09:39)Smultie Wrote: Okay, I found the culprit.
It's within the settings of http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...in_Widgets
There's a settings (enabled by default) that randomizes the databases for some reason every 10 minutes.

If (like I do) you run your XBMC database on your NAS (MySQL) this means that every 10 minutes your XBMC-device accesses your NAS, preventing hibernation.
Hi, I am facing the same issue. Could you please specify the add-on causing that? Unfortunately the link you posted does not work any more. Thanks.
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#9
(2016-01-08, 09:36)tomascrayfish Wrote: Hi, I am facing the same issue. Could you please specify the add-on causing that? Unfortunately the link you posted does not work any more. Thanks.

Link works fine for me. It redirects to Add-on:Skin_Widgets (wiki)

It's called 'Skin Widgets'.
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#10
Thanks for quick reply. However I get a Bad title report when I click on it... see below
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#11
Try to find the page via Google if you wanna visit it.

But basically all you have to do is to find the add-on in Kodi and go to its settings to turn off the randomizing.
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#12
Link works fine for me -
Code:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Skin_Widgets
for longhand.

Or go to kodi.wiki manually and search there for "Skin Widgets".
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