[mythtv-users] HDMI keep alive, maybe via sending silent audio?

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon May 16 13:25:06 UTC 2016


Hoi John,

Monday, May 16, 2016, 2:43:13 PM, you wrote:

> On 16/05/2016 12:43, Mike Perkins       wrote:

> I have a cheap HDMI switcher I bought from Maplins,       reason
> being the BT Vision box would complain when I plugged      
> something else into one of the TV's other HDMI inputs (!). I don't  
> get where BT can decide what I plug into my TV, or why they care,    but I digress.
>   
>        If you order the inputs correctly, then you should never
> need to       use the remote that comes with the switcher. The BT
> box is input 1       and the myth box is 2. I did have another host
> that I used for       Skype plugged into input 3. This means that it
> defaults to 1       except when I switch the myth box on and it goes
> back when I shut       the myth box down. Look, no hands
>   
>      Thanks, sounds clever, but I don't think that would work for
> me. My     box is a combined BE/FE so is powered on for long periods
> of time,     even when no one is watching its output.
>   
>      I'd still rather find a software fix. A loop like "while [
> true ] ;     do aplay -q silent.wav ; done" is something I could
> try. If it     works, I would make the wav file a few seconds long,
> and add a     "sleep 120" or similar in there, so that it's not
> using too much     CPU. What I don't know is whether this will
> nicely mix with Myth's     output.
>   
>      John
>   

You could add in an api call to check if anything is already played on
the frontend.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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