There are network accessable power switches that could be used to power off/on your STB but I haven't seen any that are inexpensive. <br><br>The ones I recall where used to implement STONITH for clustering purposes, but there is no reason they couldn't be used to power off/on something else.
<br><br>Come to think of it, I wonder if one of the cheap X10 devices could be set up to handle the power for your STB...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">
Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have DirecTV STB's and I'm connected via the Serial port. I've had no
<br>problems controlling the set top box, but I am wondering if it is<br>possible to shut the set top box off after (1) the recording is complete<br>and also (2) when the tuner is not in use via WatchTV?<br><br>Is this even possible?
<br><br>The directv.pl script, which is set up to change the channels, turns on<br>the STB, so that isn't an issue...<br><br>The real reason I am trying to do this is that some times the STB flakes<br>out and doesn't give me any channels or signal. Powering off and
<br>powering back on again brings things back. So.. my thinking is that if<br>I only have the STB on when in use (either via recording or watching<br>live tv), it may lessen the chances of the box flaking out..<br><br>-Rich
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