[mythtv-users] Checking power status of STB

[Justin Alcorn]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt
<acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
>

>> My setup: TWC with Cisco STB. Ubuntu 14.04.1 and MythTV 0.28
>>
> I used to do something like that though I was doing something like R.G.
> suggested to see if the tuner was in use, and if not then running the
> script.  I (accidently) discovered one day that my STB also supported the
> same ir command set as dish network boxes, and that the dish commands
> included a discrete power-on command (versus power toggle). So, just made my
> channel change command include a power-on command first.
>
> Just something to think about.

I spent a bunch of time trying to find a power-on command for my STB.
No such luck.