How to access the Sleep Timer from a Script

[keith_leitch]

I am not sure which forum is best to post this question.

I am looking for a way to read the value of the Sleep timer: Disabled, 10 min, 1 min, etc.

It would be best to do this in a Shell Script, but any clues might help me.

I have tried to use DMC's Webcontrol API calls. There is no option for this.

[FireBird]

The FireBirdLib contains the function

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FlashTimeGetInfo(tFlashTimeInfo *TimeInfo)

and the struct TimeInfo contains the field

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word SleepTimer

The following TAP Code would write the current sleep time to a Telnet console whenever it changes.

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tFlashTimeInfo  TimeInfo;
static word     LastSleepTimer;

FlashTimeGetInfo(&TimeInfo);
if(TimeInfo.SleepTimer != LastSleepTimer)
{
  TAP_PrintNet("SleepTimer = %d\n", TimeInfo.SleepTimer);
  LastSleepTimer = TimeInfo.SleepTimer;
}

[keith_leitch]

Great information; thanks for your reply. Does it need to be TAP code, or is there a C interpreter I could use to include the library and run it from a script?

[FireBird]

The library is accessing specific RAM locations and to be able to do that, the code has to run within the pvr process. In other words, it has to be a TAP. But there are many ways to communicate that information to the outside world. That TAP could for example monitor the sleep timer and write the result to a file whenever the sleep time changes. This way, a simple script would have access to the current sleep timer timeout. Of course there are other ways.

And I think that I'll move these posts to a separate thread.

[keith_leitch]

Makes sense; thanks for the education.

[keith_leitch]

DMC has added the property to Webcontrol's status get API, so that is a good outcome.

[FireBird]

Great!