USB-UIRT to turn TV on/off?

[cdhickey]

Hello all,

I have what I hope is a very straightforward question. I tried searching but can't seem to find the answer.

My setup is simple- a dedicated laptop running XP with SageTV 6.2 and a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 with 45 button remote. I also have a USB-UIRT device at my disposal. My TV signal is just a simple analog coaxial cable (no STB, etc).

I'm loving SageTV, but I would like to have a way to have it automatically turn off my TV when I put SageTV into standby mode and then turn it back on when I wake SageTV. I assume there should be a way to have USB-UIRT blast an IR signal to the television whenever the "power" button on the remote is pushed, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any suggestions?

[CollinR]

Try EventGhost, assuming you can wire an emitter to the TV you can control it as well.


I also suggest the auto sleep timer plugin... If you don't provide any commands to SageTV for XX amount of time it will auto stop and then kill the TV too.

[cdhickey]

Thanks, CollinR.

I set up EventGhost and it is sort-of solving my problem, but not fully .

I can set it up so that when USB_UIRT receives the "power" code from the Hauppauge remote it transmits a TV-Off signal, so that works.

However, it would be even better if I could use "Standby" as an event in EG that would then trigger TV-off, rather than using the remote signal as an event. Is there any way to do this? I played around quite a bit but couldn't seem to get the SageTV standby (or off/on) as an actual "event".

[steven017]

Hi cdhickey,

Are you using the SageTV plugin in the EventGhost beta?
You should be able to map the PowerOff button from your Hauppauge remote to both SageTV standby (on/off) and TV off. Just add the usb-uirt event for your Hauppauge remote to both macros. I think it should trigger both when you press the button.

Good luck

Steve