[mythtv-users] Fire-wire wrapper to turn on STB [solved]

[Joel Newcomb]

On 08/16/2013 05:00 PM, Joel Newcomb wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 07:44 PM, jlistspam wrote:
>> On 8/14/2013 10:05 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:13:49 -0700, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Myhtv users, I have another problem to solve and I am hoping the list
>>>> can once again point me in the right direction. I am running a 
>>>> firewire
>>>> channel change script, 6200ch, and it has worked well for quite some
>>>> time. It seems as my FIOS QIP 7100-1 STB has been upgraded to a 
>>>> greener
>>>> firmware and objects to me leaving it on continuously. As such, 
>>>> every 4
>>>> hours, it turns itself to what I have read as stand-by. So it responds
>>>> to -q as on when it is in standby. This of course fails my 
>>>> recording and
>>>> much frustration.
>>>> I have discovered that sending a menu command will wake it up, however
>>>> recording the menu until timeout is not appealing. I was wondering if
>>>> this is something I could use the system_event to trigger a script to
>>>> send "menu" then "exit". Maybe even throw in a sleep to stabilize the
>>>> box before my channel change later. That way it is all settled down 
>>>> for
>>>> the HDPVR to start recording. I think all this could be done with a
>>>> wrapper script triggered by system_event. I have been following 
>>>> another
>>>> thread this week with very close problem, but did not want to 
>>>> hijack for
>>>> my problem.
>>>> This is an Mythbuntu flavor, running 0.26 fixes, on a combined FE/BE
>>>> machine. I have the recordings waking/shut-down up this machine and
>>>> recording to the HDPVR through component/optical connections. I have
>>>> learned all I know of Linux working through my MythTV set-up, but with
>>>> only minor adjustments to others scripts. Can anyone get me started or
>>>> offer advice?
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Joel
>>> How about just adding to the start of the channel change script to
>>> always send a Menu command, wait a short period, then send an Exit
>>> command and wait a short period again?
>>>
>>> The reason for using a more complicated setup in the other thread was
>>> because the only way to wake up the STB was a Power command that was a
>>> toggle and would turn off the STB if it was already on.  If your Menu
>>> command is harmless if your STB is already on, then you can just use
>>> it in a straightforward manner to ensure the STB is going to be on.
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an exit command in the 6200ch "-e" to go along with the "-m" 
>> menu command:
>>
>>    /usr/local/bin/6200ch -g 0x001bxxxxxx   -m
>>    sleep 1
>>    /usr/local/bin/6200ch -g 0x001bxxxxxxx   -e
>>
>> There is also a setting in the boxes menu settings to turn off the 
>> sleep.  I did that a couple weeks ago.  But don't remember exactly 
>> where it was.  Now my box doesn't sleep again.
>>
>> John
>>
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> I wanted to say thanks to all the replied, I will work through the 
> suggestions this weekend. Easiest would be to find if indeed the 
> QIP7100-1 has a setting to turn off the standby after time. My 6200ch 
> channel changer seems to want different command ordering. If I 
> understand the scripts suggested, I can make Myth call my own script 
> with these commands before the actual channel change.
> Thanks again
>
List, after watching another HD box (QIP6200-2) connected to my remote 
front-end machine, discovered there is a standby time in the "settings" 
menu. I changed to never. So I then this morning, connected my monitor 
via DVI to HDMI cable and got the menu up. Changed the standby setting 
to never. This took care of the daily annoyance of the box going into 
standby. But still, occasionally a update or power outage leaves the box 
in an off state. So following the suggestions of others, I attempted to 
create a script to send "menu"& "exit", then the 6200ch channel change. 
I had to experiment a bit with ordering, googled some rudimentary bash 
problems, fought with permissions, but ended up with this:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/6200ch -v -g 0x0024xxxxxxxxxxxxx -m -q
sleep 2
/usr/local/bin/6200ch -v -g 0x0024xxxxxxxxxxxxx -e -q
/usr/local/bin/6200ch -v -g 0x0024xxxxxxxxxxxxx -4 $1

I then substituted my script name into mythtv-setup for cable box 
channel change. Then turned off the cable box and scheduled a recording. 
The STB then came on received my two commands and set to recording channel.
Hope this helps someone else, thanks again all.



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Joel Newcomb
joelnewcomb at verizon.net