Yup, I bought one too to play with, but seeing I need 3x, and they're 40-50 a piece, I was considering alternatives. Sadly these don't present any sort of public api to hit when on ethernet, and I never got around to packet sniffing or mitm the sessions that my harmony and other things tie into them with to remote control them. Pain in the arse technology, I just run up my power bills and leave them on instead. -mb On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > On 11/15/2017 12:23 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > >> The only downside I've found is the displays don't dpms power-down, so >> they'll go into screensaver mode and stay on until you power them off. >> Which in turn triggers pretty much every linux desktop to freak out and do >> weird things when it loses all of its displays, so most time I just leave >> them on with their screensaver. Last time I ran into someone with an >> actual samsung 30" 4k "monitor", it did the same thing, so caveat emptor. >> > When I initially got my 50in display, I found that I had to leave it on > all the time to avoid the system freaking out, but that hasn't been the > case for over a year. I now setthe GPU to shut off the display which > doesn't actually shut off the display, but I have the TV set to shut off > after a certain amount of time with no input. > I do have to turn it on my hand whenever I want to use the computer, but > it's quick to power up and really hasn't been a big deal ever since they > fixed the issues with the system freaking out because of a lack of displays. > > There is also the possibility to use a USB to CEC adapter to shut down and > wake up your TV. > https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter > I picked one of them up and got it to turn on and off the TV from a > script, but I haven't been able to locate how to hook it into the power > management properly to get things automated. > > Brian Cluff > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss