[mythtv-users] Kill frontend when TV is turned off.

[Ben Eisemann]

"elements" = wife / kids?

That would result in a firm "NO!!, Bad TV user".  Which would then result in
nothing changing at all.

I realized that too... which is where the mixed up states would start to
cause a problem.

God Bless,

Ben T. Eisemann
beisemann at gmail.com

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. -
Philip Yancey


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Jan Johansson <j2 at mupp.net> wrote:

>
> >Jan,
> >
> >Here is my plan (yet implemented) to achieve the same result.
> >
> >I run a Mac Mini front end (somewhat irrelevant, just thought I'd mention
> >it) and setup an IR transceiver to receive ALL my remote control commands.
> >Then with a power-off... the front end would turn around send out an IR
> >signal turning off the TV and then shutting itself down.  Still would need
> >to come up with some sort of flag or indicator to make sure the states
> >(TV-OFF FE-OFF, TV-ON FE-ON) don't get switched around (TV-ON FE-OFF,
> TV-OFF
> >FE-ON).
> >
> >Not a perfect solution but one I hope to implement.
>
> The snag there (I have a IRTrans Lan Controller, so it wouldnt be hard.) is
> that certain elements of the household still kill the TV and receiver with
> the power button on the devices rather then with the Harmony.
>
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