Anyway to get sage to send the Enter Key once an hour

[Robert Wise]

My IPTV boxes go into Standby mode every two hours if no keys are pressed. Currently no way to disable this feature, as they are trying to save bandwidth. So I need a way to press the 'Select' key for each box once an hour.

[korben_dallas]

I researched this same issue. It can be done with a SageTV plugin, but to my knowledge one does not exist.

Eventghost might work for you.

[Robert Wise]

Originally Posted by korben_dallas

I researched this same issue. It can be done with a SageTV plugin, but to my knowledge one does not exist.

Eventghost might work for you.

Thanks,

Just occurred to me that I can use my Ocelot for this.

[jchiso]

If this is a Windows-based system then you can use the AT command. You can set a task that sends a keystroke to whatever app you specify.

[stanger89]

There was an STB Keepalive plugin/program floating around here at one time.

[will]

What about setting up a batch script that would send the key to the box via your IR repeater or Firewire connection?

You can set the batch script to run every hour.

[wayner]

Exactly - send a batch script. If you have a USB-UIRT then they have a tool to allow you to send commands from a command line and if you use Firewire then there is the channelw.exe command which should also work.

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by wayner

USB-UIRT then they have a tool to allow you to send commands from a command line

Link please!

[wayner]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...&postcount=160

[gabrielcab]

I have the same problem and i tried to use the STB Keepalive but i never managed to make it send signal to the STB, i'm using WHS v1. what i did was to setup Sage to record How its Made,spongebob and other programs that have hundreds of shows, big mistake, now i'm getting no more shows to schedule and have a big load of MB used . If you have more luck please post what you did to keep your STB alive.