[mythtv-users] starting amp from MythTV

[Michael Jones]

This may not be the way you WANT to do it.. BUT..

The easiest way to do this is with a universal remote.  I currently  
use the Logitech Harmony 880 (they're available for under $100 at the  
local costco)

The unit has the ability to switch everything around for you, turning  
components on and off depending on the "mode" you select.  It works  
BEAUTIFULLY and also has the added benefit of very high W.A.F.

Just a thought.

On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Richard Morton
> <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to rearrange my lounge into its final arrangement now  
>> that I
>> have Myth as our full time DVR.
>>
>> The arrangement will be to move the AV receiver into the same  
>> cupboard as
>> the Myth backend/frontend, leaving just TV and speakers in the  
>> room. I
>> rarely use my PS2 or PS3 so the receiver stays on the TV input most  
>> of the
>> time and I simply turn it on and off and volume up and down.
>>
>> I want to control everything from MythTV; (at the moment through a  
>> remote /
>> keyboard until another interface comes along). I am looking for the  
>> server
>> to send the correct IR signal to turn the amp on and off based on  
>> position
>> in Myth; if not in one of a few pages (or playback) then after a
>> configurable delay, the amp should be powered down. Immediately upon
>> entering one of these defined screens or in playback then the  
>> amplifier
>> should be turned on (but my preference is for this to turn off the  
>> amp if
>> MythMusic playback is in the background when on the main mythtv  
>> menu as this
>> would make it easy for the (lazy) me to turn off the amp without  
>> bothering
>> to stop playback - the server is left on all the time anyway)
>>
>> When using the volume up and down ( [ and ] ) the appropriate IR  
>> signal
>> should be sent to the amp, and myth would not need to adjust the  
>> volume of
>> the soundcard mixer - it could be useful if F10 and F11 (i think)  
>> still
>> controlled the mixer volume, a further defined button would ideally  
>> also
>> change the input of the AV receiver (but for the reasons I outlined  
>> above,
>> this is lower priority).
>>
>> The button layout of the remote is that each of the functions  
>> outlined has
>> its own defined button (power on and power off are not combined  
>> onto a
>> single button).
>>
>> The screens I would want the amp on for are any of the ones where I  
>> can
>> select media that would play sound, or while
>>
>> Any one done anything similar; attempted it, or know how where I  
>> can look
>> that can help - I have skimmed LIRC and the Wiki, but nothing jumps  
>> out at
>> me on how to trap the screen changes and use that to initiate LIRC  
>> without
>> polling the telnet interface (messy).
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
> I am no expert and others may have better ideas. The menu xml files
> can point to arbitrary places, so perhaps amend the menu entry for,
> say, "watch recording" to activate a script that turns the amp on and
> then goes to the watch recordings menu. You'd need to change quite a
> few menus though...
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