[mythtv-users] Kill frontend when TV is turned off.

[Ben Eisemann]

Jan,

Here is my plan (yet implemented) to achieve the same result.

I run a Mac Mini front end (somewhat irrelevant, just thought I'd mention
it) and setup an IR transceiver to receive ALL my remote control commands.
Then with a power-off... the front end would turn around send out an IR
signal turning off the TV and then shutting itself down.  Still would need
to come up with some sort of flag or indicator to make sure the states
(TV-OFF FE-OFF, TV-ON FE-ON) don't get switched around (TV-ON FE-OFF, TV-OFF
FE-ON).

Not a perfect solution but one I hope to implement.

God Bless,

Ben T. Eisemann
beisemann at gmail.com

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. -
Philip Yancey


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> > Since I am away from home, I do not have ready access to my set-up to
> > experiment with this idea.
> > But, it occurred to me that it would be kind of neat to kill mythfrontend
> > when the TV-gets turned off (Because then it would drop to mythwelcome,
> and
> > eventually power down).
> > Now, I suppose that I could let read-edid/parse-edid run every cpl of
> > minutes and act when no information is available. But can someone think
> of
> > any other ways to do this?
>
> Your TV doesn't have a serial port, does it? My Sharp Aquos does, and
> it's relatively simple to write a script to check it's power status.
> Other than that, the only thing I can think of is to see if maybe
> something gets written in the X log about it (it doesn't on my system,
> but perhaps if logging level was higher or something).
>
> --
> Ron
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