[mythtv-users] idle shutdown/suspend on front-end

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Fri Jul 23 02:37:43 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 10:58 +1000, Chris Adams wrote: 
> 
> The frontend doesn't have any idle functionality,

My finding too.

> and pressing extra
> buttons to get back to mythwelcome is more work/thinking than I want
> when I watch TV.

Indeed.  Or more than I'd expect anyone else to do.  "You didn't exit
back out to the welcome screen" is not something I want to start nagging
people about.

> So I created a script that queries the frontend via
> telnet socket, and will shut down if it's not playing anything
> (provided the remote hasn't been used in the last 15 minutes).

Can you share that here?

b.

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