[mythtv-users] Power Relay for Frontends

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Boehm
<mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
> Brian Long wrote:
>> What about using a smart power strip?  I've not tried these with
>> MythTV and it would hard power-off your frontend when the TV is
>> powered off, but it's an idea.  :)
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Strip-LCG5-Auto-Switching-Technology/dp/B000L9635G
>
> That's what I'm doing. I have a 15+ years old master-slave extension
> lead (I think they were called like that in those days). But I use it
> the other way around, my frontend switches the TV on or off. How else
> would the frontend shut down gracefully? I also need only one remote
> control, the one for the FE.

found this quite coincidentally yesterday:

http://www.simerec.com/PCS-2.html