[mythtv-users] determining power state of firewire cable box

[William]

Sam Logen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a motorola DCH-3200 attached to my mythtv setup via a firewire cable.  The way I've set up my boot process, it primes the firewire port before mythtv starts up.  However, if the DCH unit is powered off when the machine turns on to record, then the priming process hangs and I won't be able to enter mythtv.
>
> I've downloaded and compiled the latest "6200ch" from svn.  I noticed that this script has the capacity to toggle the power state of the cable box.  So I modified its source to include my box's vendorid, then compiled it.  Toggling the power of the cable box with "-w" works, but all it does is toggle.
>
> That means that if the box is on, "-w" will turn it off instead.
>
> So if I was to set the machine to power on for a recording (and I'm not the only person to use the cable box at times), I'd still have to 

Here is the real problem... I would suggest renting another cable box 
and hiding the one for mythtv where it wont be turned off accidentally. 
Put the other one at the tv set for when you really really must watch 
live tv. Or even better, put both on your myth box so you can record and 
watch at the same time. I doubt I could go back to a single tuner box 
again, too many shows on at the same time.

> manually check the power state of the cable box to make sure that it powers on in accordance with my scripts, and not power off instead.
>
> Is there a simple way to query the power state of the cable box via the firewire connection, so that if it returns a value meaning the box is off, it can power it on with the 6200ch "-w" switch?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
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