[mythtv-users] Tapping/monitoring devinput events

[Craig Huff]

On Jun 20, 2011 6:49 AM, "dargllun" <dargllun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using lircd with devinput to control Myth. I would like to extend my
> home-grown shutdown monitor script to keep the system idle as long as
> there are still commands coming in from the remote control.
>
> I looked that the System Events bits in the configuration, but was not
> able to create a script which would be called upon input events.
>
> How could I archieve this?
>
> TIA,
> Greg

Use irexec on top of current lirc config to touch a file for any/all key
presses and have your script test if date (-u, IIRC -- seconds since epoch)
minus file modification date is less than "n"seconds.

Craig.
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