On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Thierry de Coulon wrote: >I don't know if someone can help me on this one. > >The goal is as follow: I have an older machine, running Wheezy and TDE 13.2 >As it's only used to record satellite-TV I never felt the need to update it >and won't do unless necessary. > >Now what I would like to do is record something in a week, without leaving the >computer on for all that time. I can let the computer start at the right >time. When starting it loads kaffeine. I've programmed the recording. > >My problem is this: > >a) Kaffeine is started by a link in .trinity/Autostart. The programs starts OK >but the Recording Schedule is empty. No recording. > >b) I close kaffeine and start it again. Now the Recording Schedule is there. > >Is there some magical string to add so that Kaffeine autostarts *AND* loads >the Recording schedule? man or --help don't provide anything about recording. I have found that such as .trinity/Autostart and/or cron @boot need to either loop and test for the network to be up and stable, or just `sleep` for some short period if a bash script. HTH Jonesy