[knappster]

@janbar I upgraded mythtv from 29 to 30 about a month ago. At the time I had a frontend on a raspberry pi 3 with raspbian jessie and kodi 17.3? and whichever pvr.mythtv was available. I upgraded to raspbian stretch with kodi 18.1 and pvr.mythtv 5.10.6. Regardless of whether I have the option "block backend shutdown" enabled or disabled, the master backend (on another machine) will not automatically shutdown with mythwelcome. I just exited kodi on the pi last night and the master backend shutdown automatically as expected. I am going to give it a couple more nights to ensure that it is consistent, but in the meantime I wanted to check if I am misunderstanding something or if this is not working as expected. In previous versions I could leave kodi running on the pi and the backend would still shutdown with mythwelcome overnight.

[ikke-t]

I confirm I have the same problem, upgraded the both sides. Some new setting somewhere perhaps? It's been years that I set it up, so I don't remember what was the command, but one can query the backend what is keeping it awake. That should tell if it's the Kodi client.

[ikke-t]

Sorry, misread it, you already prove it's Kodi. That's what I suspect too. There shoukd be some timer added for releasing MythTV after some delay of inactivity.

[knappster]

Sorry, misread it, you already prove it's Kodi. That's what I suspect too. There shoukd be some timer added for releasing MythTV after some delay of inactivity.

@ikke-t could you check your settings?  When I upgraded, the advanced tab for the pvr.mythtv configuration had this setting enabled.  I disabled it and nothing changed.  I re-enabled it and disabled it again just to be sure and it still didn't change.  According to the wiki:
https://kodi.wiki/view/MythTV_PVR#Advanced

even if it is on, it shouldn't prevent backend shutdown when the kodi screensaver turns on.  My screensaver setting is 3 minutes, so it appears that this is not honored either.  Perhaps the behavior has changed from 29 to 30 and this was just overlooked.  For now I am planning to just closing kodi on my raspberry pi whenever I am not using it.

[knappster]

@ikke-t, there is an issue on github about this, too. I will be probably move to there for troubleshooting this.
https://github.com/janbar/pvr.mythtv/issues/116