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