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



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