AppleTV 2 (black) Chance to sleep/shut down the ATV 2 from XBMC?

I think people who want that sleep thingy working are overcomplicating things a bit too. At least for atv2 and for what that stupid sleep really does. But whatever. What deanmv said was what i was talking about.

Memphiz: Yeah, i didnt think this would be such a hassle since it seems to be working for me quite well.
I tested this on a couple (4) of ATV2's now and all are working 4.4.3 and 4.4.4, different TV's and all, so im a bit confused.

deanmv : Did you try waiting 45 seconds after running the powerd command ?
After 45s press central (silver) button (hold for a sec or two you will see the light blinking very fast) to turn apple tv2 back on.
(powerd is running as a daemon on 4.4.3 and 4.4.4, so that could be the cause why its not waking for you.)

(2012-05-03 22:17)IT-King Wrote:  deanmv : Did you try waiting 45 seconds after running the powerd command ?
After 45s press central (silver) button (hold for a sec or two you will see the light blinking very fast) to turn apple tv2 back on.

Nope I didn't try that I don't think, didn't really time how long it was off for. It is interesting as it even remembers what you were doing after power cord pull but it is so low power it doesn't bother me anyway.

Yeah, the device uses a total of 6W of power. 6W guys... More power has probably been expended due to the postings in this thread, than months of leaving the ATV2 on.

I guess I don't get it...

Still an interesting find, even if it doesn't save any power.

My way of doing it

Settings-->power management--> quit xbmc after 5 min of inactivity
Then on the Atv Os itself, setting --> sleep after 15 min

That means that at the end of the movie, xbmc will wait 5 min before existing, then the original atv os will wait 15 min until it sleeps.

Down side of this method, when xbmc crashes, it will (And I don't know why) reset the sleep after parameter to "Never"

Hope it helps

Ebt

(2012-05-04 14:57)ebt4ever Wrote:  My way of doing it

Settings-->power management--> quit xbmc after 5 min of inactivity
Then on the Atv Os itself, setting --> sleep after 15 min

That means that at the end of the movie, xbmc will wait 5 min before existing, then the original atv os will wait 15 min until it sleeps.

Down side of this method, when xbmc crashes, it will (And I don't know why) reset the sleep after parameter to "Never"

Hope it helps

Ebt

Same here. From time to time (and now very often) the AppleTV 2 sleep option reset to never by itself. Any fix for that?

ebt4ever: thats actualy quite nice, unfortunately for me i use the org.tomcool.xbmc-booter which would bring me back into XBMC

when xbmc starts it sets the sleep timer to never. If we wouldn't do that iOS would kill xbmc when the sleep timer is runout. On exit we set the timer back to what it was before. When we crash we can't restore the setting and it will stay at never. Thought this is mentioned in the faq.

Well Ned if you read me - this can go into the faq if not already there

Any chance we can have an option to specify a value to set it back to? If not can we default it back to 15 minutes if it's currently set to Never?

Thanks
JC