bigj Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I thought this might be of interest to some of you. We had a client who would always pause the television and walk away for an extended period of time and trashed their plasma. So I can up with this programing, after we installed the new tv, to press play after a few minutes. You have a boolean true/false variable, I called tv paused. You have a timer, which I chose 3 minutes On the room level When command pause is received ? If variable - tv paused is false -> variables -> tv paused = true -> stop ? If variable - tv paused is true -> variables -> tv paused = false -> stop When command play is received -> variables -> tv paused = false On the variable When the variable -> tv paused changes ? If variable -> tv paused is true -> start timer 'tv pause' -> stop ? If variable -> tv paused is false -> stop timer 'tv pause' -> stop On the timer When timer 'tv pause' expires -> send command 'play' to the living room -> variables -> tv paused = false Enjoy, J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hike Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Peraps having it switch to photo screensaver would be good idea too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoGo Delicious Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Peraps having it switch to photo screensaver would be good idea too?. . or turning the TV off after so many minutes and having a "Resume" button that would turn it back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboKuake Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Good Idea! I've also created macros before to run the screen burn protection from the plasma's menu at an obscure time on the scheduler (like 4AM) if the monitor is not in use.One more question though. Have you tested this with pausing and then switching inputs? Say the user has paused a DVD, then switched over to TV input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 On the room level When command pause is received ? If variable - tv paused is false -> variables -> tv paused = true -> stop ? If variable - tv paused is true -> variables -> tv paused = false -> stopCould you save a few lines by just having the Pause Command toggle the variable?If he's pausing something like a TiVo where he wants to come back to the same scene, I'd tend to prefer shutting the TV off or invoking a screen saver or timeout on the screen (if it exists) as opposed to unpausing it.Very clever all around idea though!--Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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