[mythtv-users] Improving WAF -- Poweroff Through The Remote

[Stephen Tait]

>
>You can also use irexec from the lirc package to
>execute whatever you want from the remote.  See the
>docs, but basically you run irexec as you do irxevent,
>and configure the behaviors in .lircrc.  I use it on a
>combined myth/desktop box to wake up the screen from
>power save and switch between myth and the regular desktop.

I'm trying to do the same thing so I can use my power button to start 
mythfrontend if it dies, and use shift-power to reboot the machine. Only 
thing that's stopping me is my slightly dicky lircd.conf ;^)