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Jul 18, 2008, 9:36 AM
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Re: Power off Television after period of time with no user input.
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 18:33 +0200, Matthieu Gaeremynck wrote:
> I don't know which distribution you use but you could use a part of the
> settings documented for the acpi wake-up procedure of Ubuntu. This does
> a shutdown after a configured idle time and has a script to check if
> nothing is running anymore.
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> have a look in following section"MythShutdownCheck" of
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/ACPIWake
>
> regards,
>
> Matthieu
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> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 16:52 -0400, Kevin Robbins wrote:
> > I'm looking for pointers for the following.
> >
> > I remember reading that someone had done this with a usb-uirt, lirc and cron.
> >
> > Here is exactly what I'd like to do.
> >
> > Run a cron job every 2 hours that checks to see if A) There has been
> > any remote signals sent and B) Check if Myth is playing a video or is
> > just idle.
> >
> > If both conditions are met, I'd like to display a notice that lasts
> > for 10-20 seconds (which a keypress will cancel) or send a power off
> > command to the Television.
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