[mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

[Craig Tinson]

Dave Sherohman wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote:
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>>am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send 
>>half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take 
>>you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your 
>>asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm
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>Try pressing ESC half a dozen times...  Once you get to the shutdown
>confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown.  So this would have a 50/50
>chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus.
>(Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if
>it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second
>time and it will...)
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ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol

Craig