[mythtv-users] Shutdown directtv box when idle

[John Sutherland]

Hi guys.. I have my myth backend setup on a machine that needs to be  
up 24/7.. Its connected to a directv tuner via PVR350..

What i would like to do is to turn off the tuner (in an effort to  
save elect costs) when Myth is idle.. But not shut myth down..

I've tried hacking some scripts into the myth shutdown/idle  stuff,  
but can't seem to get the correct voodoo together to do this...  
Anyone have any else have a similar setup that works? Any ideas on  
how to accomplish this? I'm more than willing to write some Python  
scripts that talk to the backend via the protocol if I can detect  
when it goes idle that way...