[mythtv] Tv power control idea

[Neil Whelchel]

My newer plasma does have DPMS and that works fine. However my older one
does not and I also have a projection TV (with s-video) that I am using
the same idea on. I agree that with DPMS the idea is useless. I guess I
should have been more clear the the idea was a 'no DPMS work around'.

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Robert Johnston wrote:

> On 12/29/05, Neil Whelchel <koyama at firstlight.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am using a large plasma TV with Myth and from time to time it gets
> > forgotten about and left on overnight or even longer.
> > So I came up with the idea of powering off the TV when the screensaver
> > would come on. (Also this has the ability to turn the TV on as well.)
> > At the moment I hacked the fillowing into screensaver-x11.cpp. Knowing
> > that this ais a temporary hack I am posting here for ideas as to what the
> > correct way to go about this is...
> > The hack simply checks for the presence of a FIFO in the /tmp directory.
> > If the file is there it simply writes a number to it to indicate the state
> > of the screensaver. The number is read by another (daemon) which calls
> > irsend to switch the power of the TV. I am watching a pin of the parallel
> > port to get the power state of the TV.
> > At the moment it is all very crude but it works very well, no more
> > TV-on-all-night problem and pressing any button on the remote turns the TV
> > on!
>
> This is a very convoluted solution... Does not the plasma in question
> support DPMS? If it does, why not use DPMS to put the plasma into
> "Standby".
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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