[mythtv-users] Power off from remote

[Michael Watson]

On 10/08/2012 3:11 PM, 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
I use a script that automatically turns off the frontend after a 
predefined time of inactivity.  I use xscreensaver with a 5 min delay to 
protect screen from burn in, and after the screen saver has been active 
for 20 minutes, it shuts down the frontend cleanly, and powers off the 
machine.