[mythtv-users] Power off from remote

[Thomas Boehm]

Joel Ebel wrote:
> I got around to setting up wake-on-lan, and I have a widget on my
> phone to easily turn on my frontend, but now I need a way to get my IR
> remote to turn off the frontend.  What's the best way to do this?  Is
> there an existing keybinding that can be used to immediately shut down
> or suspend a front-end?  Perhaps I could set it up as a keystroke
> event handler, and have mythtv's lircrc create that keystroke.
> Alternatively, I could do it outside of mythtv with irexec, but I
> already run irexec on demand when I use mythgames, and running a
> separate one with a separate config file just to shut down my machine
> seems excessive if mythtv could already do it.  I'm curious how other
> people are handling this.


cat /home/mythtv/.lirc/irexec
# LIRCRC Auto Generated by Mythbuntu Lirc Generator
# Author(s): Mario Limonciello, Nick Fox, John Baab
# Created for use with Mythbuntu

begin
    remote = mceusb
    prog = irexec
    button = Clear
    config = /path/to/script1
    repeat = 2
    delay = 3
end

begin
    remote = mceusb
    prog = irexec
    button = Power
    config = /path/to/script2
    repeat = 0
    delay = 0
end
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