On 18-04-06 01:23 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I'm trying to setup a machine to autostart at a given time, do record something and then shutdown.
Autostarting works with:
echo `date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss ' '+%s'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
but this seems to work only if I put the computer in suspend mode (if I shutdown the computer does not come back to life). However, when the computer starts from suspend, the session is locked... and I am not there to unlock it.
I've searched TDE's control panel without luck. Is there a way to remove the auto-lock feature?
Thierry
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Hi, Trinity Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager->Convenience Top-Left: Enable Auto-Login
Cheers Pascal
On Friday 06 April 2018 23.08:31 midi-pascal wrote:
On 18-04-06 01:23 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I'm trying to setup a machine to autostart at a given time, do record something and then shutdown.
Autostarting works with:
echo `date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss ' '+%s'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
but this seems to work only if I put the computer in suspend mode (if I shutdown the computer does not come back to life). However, when the computer starts from suspend, the session is locked... and I am not there to unlock it.
I've searched TDE's control panel without luck. Is there a way to remove the auto-lock feature?
Thierry
Thank you, but I allready have autologin and it does not solve the problem as the lock occurs when I put the computer to "suspend".
I may have found another solution by using rtcwake and hibernate:
rtcwake -m disk -u -t <timestamp>
It's a little more complicated, as you first have to generate the correct "number" for the date and time, but the computer then hibernates and when waking up seems to do a regular boot and does not lock the screen.
Shutting it down seems to work, but I had to use rc.local to run the shutdown command at boot and as root, so i must not forget to remove this after use...
The current method - still being tested - is:
- edit /etc/rc.local for shutdown - program Kaffeine for recording - generate the date/time number - run rtcwake with this number
The computer then hibernates and (hopefuly) comes back to life at the right time, records and then shuts down.
Thierry
Am Samstag, 7. April 2018 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
On Friday 06 April 2018 23.08:31 midi-pascal wrote:
On 18-04-06 01:23 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I'm trying to setup a machine to autostart at a given time, do record something and then shutdown.
Autostarting works with:
echo `date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss ' '+%s'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
but this seems to work only if I put the computer in suspend mode (if I shutdown the computer does not come back to life). However, when the computer starts from suspend, the session is locked... and I am not there to unlock it.
I've searched TDE's control panel without luck. Is there a way to remove the auto-lock feature?
Thierry
Thank you, but I allready have autologin and it does not solve the problem as the lock occurs when I put the computer to "suspend".
I may have found another solution by using rtcwake and hibernate:
rtcwake -m disk -u -t <timestamp>
It's a little more complicated, as you first have to generate the correct "number" for the date and time, but the computer then hibernates and when waking up seems to do a regular boot and does not lock the screen.
Shutting it down seems to work, but I had to use rc.local to run the shutdown command at boot and as root, so i must not forget to remove this after use...
The current method - still being tested - is:
- edit /etc/rc.local for shutdown
- program Kaffeine for recording
- generate the date/time number
- run rtcwake with this number
The computer then hibernates and (hopefuly) comes back to life at the right time, records and then shuts down.
Thierry
This might be a stupid question, but why do you need a GUI at all when doing automatic tasks?
Nik
On Saturday 07 April 2018 11.13:01 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
This might be a stupid question, but why do you need a GUI at all when doing automatic tasks?
Nik
No question is stupid if you want an answer :)
Well, I use Kaffeine to record Cable Television. Kaffeine (at least in my use) requires the GUI.
I never looked if there is a possibility to run such a task from the command line but this would require setting the right channel and recording time and this is damn easier from the GUI.
Besides, I started with GEM on the Amstrad PC 1512 and while I appreciate the command line I'm sort of a GUI addict :)
Thierry
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