[mythtv] Tv power control idea

[Robert Johnston]

On 12/29/05, Neil Whelchel <koyama at firstlight.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using a large plasma TV with Myth and from time to time it gets
> forgotten about and left on overnight or even longer.
> So I came up with the idea of powering off the TV when the screensaver
> would come on. (Also this has the ability to turn the TV on as well.)
> At the moment I hacked the fillowing into screensaver-x11.cpp. Knowing
> that this ais a temporary hack I am posting here for ideas as to what the
> correct way to go about this is...
> The hack simply checks for the presence of a FIFO in the /tmp directory.
> If the file is there it simply writes a number to it to indicate the state
> of the screensaver. The number is read by another (daemon) which calls
> irsend to switch the power of the TV. I am watching a pin of the parallel
> port to get the power state of the TV.
> At the moment it is all very crude but it works very well, no more
> TV-on-all-night problem and pressing any button on the remote turns the TV
> on!

This is a very convoluted solution... Does not the plasma in question
support DPMS? If it does, why not use DPMS to put the plasma into
"Standby".
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Robert "Anaerin" Johnston