TV Wakeup Timer
From MythTV Official Wiki
I prefer to have the TV wake me up instead of an alarm clock. With version 0.19 and the new TCP Port Frontend control you can do it. Setup the TV to turn on at whatever time you wish to get up. And then run the following script with cron at the same time.
The script connects to the frontend via telnet, switches to LiveTV and changes the channel.
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::Telnet; $host = "localhost"; $port = 6546; $channel = 67; $telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10, Port=>$port, Errmode=>'die'); my $length = length($channel); my $counter = 0; my $temp; $telnet->open( $host ); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); $telnet->print('jump livetv'); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); while( $counter < $length ) { $telnet->print("key " . substr($channel,$counter,1) ); $telnet->waitfor('/#/i'); $counter++; } $telnet->print('exit');