[mythtv-users] Stop showing TV when idle?

[Dan Morphis]

The patch I submitted ONLY works if your using the native lirc support 
in myth.

-dan

Martyn Weber wrote:

> HI there was a recent patch submitted that enabled mythtv to do something
> when a key was pressed on the remote. I am going to have a look at that
> code, when I get a chance, as I think it might morph into something that
> might help out.
> 
> My idea is to have a ir blaster configured to drive the TV. Then configure
> mythtv so that when I press the OFF button on the mythtv remote, it jumps to
> the TV or main menu and sends an IR 'tv off' signal to the TV. This means I
> can do away with the TV remote and stop people turning off the TV and
> leaving the myth box on live TV.
> 
> This could be developed further to shutdown the mythbox if there after a
> period of no activity like the current wake up later option (but amended to
> deal with combined backend/frontend after the remote's power off button has
> been pressed). Then all thats left is to get the PC to power on when it
> detects activity on the serial port (which has the remote receiver plugged
> in).
> 
> 
> Some ideas there, dunno when, if, or how far I'll get with all this....
> 
> Cheers
> Martyn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Owen B. Mehegan" <owen at nerdnetworks.org>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:36 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Stop showing TV when idle?
> 
> 
> 
>>My roommates have yet to grasp the concept of MythTV; they have a
>>tendency to start watching a show, and then just turn off the TV when
>>they're done, leaving MythTV cranking away at whatever channel is on,
>>with no one watching. Tonight I came home and mythfrontend was hung,
>>apparently because it had been left playing for 24 hours. It was easy
>>enough to killall mythfrontend and then start it up again, but I'm
>>trying to make those types of interventions as infrequent as possible.
>>
>>Is there some way to get Myth to prompt you after a certain amount of
>>idle activity (maybe no channel surfing or something) to keep watching
>>or stop? Then maybe there would be a 15 second timer, and when it
>>expires, Myth kills the TV and flips back to the menu? Or should I not
>>care about this?
>>
>>/Owen
>>
>>
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