[mythtv-users] sending IR signal on screensaver activation

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to setup my system so that when the power management
> screensaver fades the screensaver to black an IR signal is sent to

You mean DPMS? I don't think you can add events to the DPMS system.

You could run a crontask that checks the output of xset -q and takes
actions based on it's findings.

-Johnny


> turn off my a/v receiver. when a remote button is pressed, the
> screensaver would turn off and another IR signal would be sent to turn
> it back on.
>
> Anyone any ideas how I would do this?
>
> I am running ubuntu 9.10 with 0.23-fixes but will upgrade at some
> point to 10.04 and 0.24-fixes.
>
> The AV receiver is in a cupboard and none of the settings are changed
> on it... it sits there on the same input at the same volume (using
> myth to control the digital volume - its connected with a digital/coax
> link).
>
> R
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