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

[George Galt]

Stephen Tait wrote:

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>>
>> 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.
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> 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 ;^)
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Thanks for all the help.  Using irexec seemed to work best, so that was 
the course I took.  The box is a little on the old side, so there were 
no power management tools in bios.

Thanks again.