On Thu, 15 May 2014 22:04:34 BST "Steve Simon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Its just wonderful to have a raspberry pi as a plan9 terminal, > but the energy saving of the pi is outweighed by the monitor I use. > > The Pi's display code blanks the screen after a while but this does > not shutdown the monitor. > > I dug a little and it seems I need to send CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) > messages over HDMI - Via a Pi GPU entrypoint. > > > Porting libcec looks a little painful especially as I only need to be able > to send two messages (turn on and turn off). > > Anyone know anything about this stuff? is CEC what I need or is there some > other (simpler) way?
May be use a gpio pin to control a switch?!
