This might be wildly off the mark, but is there something VESA related to
do this, VGA monitors, et al?

I prepare to stand flamed. ^.^


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 May 2014 22:04:34 BST "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net> 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?!
>
>