[mythtv-users] Fire-wire wrapper to turn on STB

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:13:49 -0700, you wrote:

>Myhtv users, I have another problem to solve and I am hoping the list 
>can once again point me in the right direction. I am running a firewire 
>channel change script, 6200ch, and it has worked well for quite some 
>time. It seems as my FIOS QIP 7100-1 STB has been upgraded to a greener 
>firmware and objects to me leaving it on continuously. As such, every 4 
>hours, it turns itself to what I have read as stand-by. So it responds 
>to -q as on when it is in standby. This of course fails my recording and 
>much frustration.
>I have discovered that sending a menu command will wake it up, however 
>recording the menu until timeout is not appealing. I was wondering if 
>this is something I could use the system_event to trigger a script to 
>send "menu" then "exit". Maybe even throw in a sleep to stabilize the 
>box before my channel change later. That way it is all settled down for 
>the HDPVR to start recording. I think all this could be done with a 
>wrapper script triggered by system_event. I have been following another 
>thread this week with very close problem, but did not want to hijack for 
>my problem.
>This is an Mythbuntu flavor, running 0.26 fixes, on a combined FE/BE 
>machine. I have the recordings waking/shut-down up this machine and 
>recording to the HDPVR through component/optical connections. I have 
>learned all I know of Linux working through my MythTV set-up, but with 
>only minor adjustments to others scripts. Can anyone get me started or 
>offer advice?
>Thanks in advance,
>Joel

How about just adding to the start of the channel change script to
always send a Menu command, wait a short period, then send an Exit
command and wait a short period again?

The reason for using a more complicated setup in the other thread was
because the only way to wake up the STB was a Power command that was a
toggle and would turn off the STB if it was already on.  If your Menu
command is harmless if your STB is already on, then you can just use
it in a straightforward manner to ensure the STB is going to be on.