Power Timer

[sataday]

I put my solo2 into deep standby at night and have my power timer set to start it up in the morning (every day)

My question is how can I delete the pages and pages of entries that are now there. I know you can delete them one by one but this will take forever. Is there another way?
Thanks.

[ccs]

…. this might help.... https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...er-log-entries

[sataday]

It probably would help if I understood it. I though there might be a file I could access via FTP or a telnet command to clear the entries.

[ccs]

Yes, I should have had a look, it's almost certainly out of date.

[birdman]

I put my solo2 into deep standby at night and have my power timer set to start it up in the morning (every day)

My question is how can I delete the pages and pages of entries that are now there. I know you can delete them one by one but this will take forever. Is there another way?
Thanks.

There should be an option to auto-trim them.
Ah, yes...they are removed according to the option you have set for how long to keep timers.

Go to:

Setup -> Recordings, playback & timeshift -> Recording & playback

near the end of the list of items (second page) you'll find:

Remove completed timers after (days).

I have mine set to 7.

[sataday]

I didn't realise that would work for power timers. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

I did mange to delete the list of power timer entries. In FTP it went to etc/enigma2 (init 4) deleted pm_timer.eml then init 3 and then rebooted.

[birdman]

I did mange to delete the list of power timer entries. In FTP it went to etc/enigma2 (init 4) deleted pm_timer.eml then init 3 and then rebooted.

That will have either have had no effect (file gets re-written as enigma2 shuts down) or have removed all of your power timers (the file is a list of the timers with a record of state changes for each).
I think it's the former which happens.

[sataday]

It did work. After rebooting, the power timer list had all cleared, and after inputting another timer entry the file appeared again with only that one line.

[birdman]

It did work. After rebooting, the power timer list had all cleared, and after inputting another timer entry the file appeared again with only that one line.

So you wiped out your timers...
I was assuming that you had a repeating timer running, which means that it is always there.

[sataday]

Yes, I had a repeating power timer running, but it left an entry there every day. There must have been about 300 entries there and I just wanted tidy thing up and start again.
I will now try and remember to go into it, and manually delete past entries, every week or so.
The settings in Recordings, playback & timeshift > Remove completed timers after (days). Doesn't seem to have any affect with Power timers.

[ccs]

The settings in Recordings, playback & timeshift > Remove completed timers after (days). Doesn't seem to have any affect with Power timers.

That's what I always thought, hence @birdman's fix a year or two ago.

[birdman]

The settings in Recordings, playback & timeshift > Remove completed timers after (days). Doesn't seem to have any affect with Power timers.

It does for me.
I have two of them and the oldest state-change records for them at the moment is Tue 20 Aug 02:54:19 BST 2019.

I haven't edited the file by hand in > 2 years.

[sataday]

Mine is set default at 7 days on 5.3.001 It may not have been set on previous image (I don't know). So I'll wait and see what happens. Thanks Birdman.

[ccs]

… there's always been a default setting for deleting completed timers, if ordinary timers haven't been building up, then you can't have ever set it to "never".