[mythtv-users] DISH 722 receiver and "screen saver"

[Misty P]

Brian Wood wrote:
> It has an "inactivity timer" that shuts the receiver down after an
> interval if inactivity. You can disable this via the menus, but even
> if you do this, it apparently puts up the "press select to watch TV"
> screen after it completes its download of program info.
>
> Obviously Myth has no way to know the receiver is in this condition,
> so recordings can be blown.
>
> With an older receiver I just sent a "select" code before the channel
> number, this had no effect if the receiver was already on.
>
> Now, however, with the 722, on some channels, sending a "select" code
> when the receiver is displaying normal video results in the unit going
> into "interactive" mode, something you definitely do not want for a
> Myth recording.
>
> The only solution I have come up with is to set the update time to
> 5:00am, and set up an auto-tune function for 5:30. This is still a
> problem if I happen to want to record something at 5:00, but that's
> rare.
>
> Anybody have a better solution?

Does your remote have a "clear" button?  My old D* boxes had screen savers 
that would wake up on any remote keypress, and the best way to wake them up 
without actually *doing* something was sending clear, then whatever I really 
wanted to send.

(So the total solution might be to *not* turn off the screen saver, but deal 
with it by adding "clear" as a prefix.)