[mythtv-users] Power off Television after period of time with no user input.

[Kevin Robbins]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Kevin Robbins wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for pointers for the following.
>>
>> I remember reading that someone had done this with a usb-uirt, lirc
>> and cron.
>>
>> Here is exactly what I'd like to do.
>>
>> Run a cron job every 2 hours that checks to see if A) There has been
>> any remote signals sent and B) Check if Myth is playing a video or is
>> just idle.
>>
>> If both conditions are met, I'd like to display a notice that lasts
>> for 10-20 seconds (which a keypress will cancel) or send a power off
>> command to the Television.
>
> Mine does this by default with xscreensaver and DPMS. It actually just
> puts the TV to sleep instead of off which I prefer because then a
> keypress on the remote wakes it back up again.
>
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Yeah My TV goes to sleep (sorta) it goes black and says no input but
the backlight is still on and kinda hard to detect, so it gets
overlooked like its off.