[mythtv-users] Checking power status of STB

[Justin Alcorn]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Justin Alcorn <justin at jalcorn.net> wrote:
>> I was searching for a way to check power status on my STB
>
> There are a lot of different STBs out there, and every MSO
> seems to have their own idea on timeouts and shutdown,
> and even what ports are enabled.
>
> <conjecture>
> For some boxen, using firewire to determine the power
> status may be a better choice, even if one uses a
> HD-PVR for content (and on some boxen, in addition to
> the ability to determine the power status, there were
> distinct firewire power on/off commands, so no toggling
> needed).  While firewire ports are rare these days,
> for something low bandwidth like a power on/off
> command (if you STB supports that) a USB to firewire
> dongle would likely work.
> </conjecture>

My setup: TWC with Cisco STB. Ubuntu 14.04.1 and MythTV 0.28