#479 - Fixing reminder stop

- Setting daemon on timer to True to make timer thread cancelable
- Refactoring shutdown to use super instead of static super
- Removing cleanup

mycroft/skills/core.py

@@ -270,10 +270,9 @@ class MycroftSkill(object):
         passed_time = time.time() - self.stop_time
         return passed_time < self.stop_threshold
 
-    def cleanup(self):
-        """ Clean up running threads, etc. """
-        pass
-
     def shutdown(self):
+        """
+        This method is intended to be called during the skill process termination.
+        The skill implementation must shutdown all processes and operations in execution.
+        """
         self.stop()
-        pass

mycroft/skills/main.py

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 
 import json
+
+import sys
 from os.path import expanduser, exists
 
 from mycroft.configuration import ConfigurationManager
@@ -84,4 +86,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         for skill in skills:
             skill.shutdown()
+    finally:
+        sys.exit()
 

mycroft/skills/scheduled_skills.py

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class ScheduledSkill(MycroftSkill):
             now = self.get_utc_time()
             delay = max(float(t) - now, 1)
             self.timer = Timer(delay, self.notify, [t])
+            self.timer.daemon = True
             self.start()
 
     def start(self):
@@ -113,15 +114,9 @@ class ScheduledSkill(MycroftSkill):
     def notify(self, timestamp):
         pass
 
-    def cleanup(self):
-        """ Cancel timer making the skill ready for shutdown """
-        if self.timer:
-            self.timer.cancel()
-
     def shutdown(self):
-        MycroftSkill.shutdown(self)
+        super(ScheduledSkill, self).shutdown()
-        if self.timer:
+        self.cancel()
-            self.timer.cancel()
 
 
 class ScheduledCRUDSkill(ScheduledSkill):