[mythtv-users] Power Relay for Frontends

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:46 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 20/10/2012 4:09 p.m., Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>> What I would probably do is set a cron job to do a EDID query, and if it
>> gets no response then I can assume the TV is off and shutdown.
>
>
> Another way might be to ping the static IP of the TV, when its gone the TV
> is off....

Surely the other way to go is a simple script on the frontend that
uses the TV's abilities to turn off via serial port, or over ethernet.
My LG for example has serial port control. So script goes:

turn tv of
go to sleep [1]

[1] this is my pseudo script language.