[mythtv-users] Do not turn off TV when exiting MythTV (no CEC)

[Phil Bridges]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Charles Tardif <charlot at mailcan.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, I did not know that.
>
> Well, it makes sense, since my monitor seems to be responding to
>> xset dpms force off
> Which does turn my monitor off.
>
> But I'm stuck there...  I tried googling for disabling dpms in MythTV but was not successful...
> I have tried inputing this in terminal before OR after launching Mythfrontend, but did not do nothing:
>> xset -dpms dpms force on
>
> Do you any idea of how to disable that thing in MythTV?
>
> By the way, I'm using Mythtv 0.26, with Linux Mint Cinnamon 13 but I'm using the gnome 3 Shell. So the power management, I think it is the gnome 3 power management.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Charles
>
> Le vendredi 19 octobre 2012 à 14:11 -0400, Raymond Wagner a écrit :
>> On 10/19/2012 13:11, Charles Tardif wrote:
>> > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2012 à 10:25 -0400, Raymond Wagner a écrit :
>> >> On 10/19/2012 08:59, Charles Tardif wrote:
>> >>> Hi erveryone,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have cec-client set-up to power off/on my toshiba TV when Ubuntu
>> >>> standby/wake up. Thats great.
>> >>>
>> >>> I have installed Myth-tv. But when I exit Myth-tv, it turns off my TV. I
>> >>> do not wish this behaviour. I often want to browse the internet with
>> >>> firefox after watching TV so I need the television.
>> >>>
>> >>> How do I stop Myth-tv from sending CEC messages? I will have ubuntu
>> >>> controlling all CEC messages so I do not need Myth-tv to take charge of
>> >>> this.
>> >>
>> >> Build MythTV without CEC support, or use mythbrowser internally for your
>> >> internet browsing needs. I don't believe there are any settings to
>> >> control the behavior of MythTV's CEC capability.
>> > I thought that CEC events were configurable because I have read in the
>> > code changes description that it was.  See this link:
>> >
>> > http://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/e090e9969c87136d4f6793988107a62ef249fe78/mythtv
>> >
>> > I assumed that there was no GUI to change the option because the feature
>> > is too young, but was hoping that there was a config file we could
>> > change somewhere.
>>
>> Looking through that code, there is actually only one single place where
>> the CEC support is actually used, and that is to turn the TV on and off
>> through MythTV's keypress handling. There is nothing that will turn the
>> TV on or off automatically when you open or close mythfrontend. It is
>> only triggered when you press the buttons you have mapped to TVPOWERON
>> and TVPOWEROFF.
>>
>> Perhaps this is some issue related to DPMS, and your TV is automatically
>> going into standby when it receives the DPMS signal?

I'm on Gentoo, and I have an option to enable/disable DPMS in my .xinitrc