Sleep Function

[TheWalkman]

Has anyone ever heard a response from ROKU to enable an, "auto-off" (or sleep) function for the Soundbridge?

I've owned two Soundbridges for ~ 3 years and hadn't really bothered looking up here for a while and just found out about all the new 3.0 features. Wow. This has really taken the Soundbridge to a whole new level of functionality.

[Burkhardi]

Has anyone ever heard a response from ROKU to enable an, "auto-off" (or sleep) function for the Soundbridge?

I've owned two Soundbridges for ~ 3 years and hadn't really bothered looking up here for a while and just found out about all the new 3.0 features. Wow. This has really taken the Soundbridge to a whole new level of functionality.

Welcome back and yes 3.X is awesome!
The offical word back in the day was they had no plans, to support it via the UI on the normal SoundBridge.

The great and cool thing (and I hope they always keep this backdoor open) is you can access it from thrid party software. Search for "alarm and M1000". I use "sb.exe" to access mine.
Here is a link to the app...
http://beeka.110mb.com/

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?p=90283#90283

Also, this one is popular too..
http://sbcommander.sourceforge.net/

[TheWalkman]

Burkhardi,

Thanks for the note.

I found SDCommander today and have installed it. Neat piece of software. It really prompted me to post the question. It's ironic that using SDCommander you can set alarms and a sleep function. Clearly, this works.

I just wish I could do this using the remote rather than having to turn on my PC. Too bad there isn't a V2 of the remote that would allow you to do this.

I use my Soundbridges every day but it feels like ROKU treats the product as a red-headed step child....

[samsaidi]

I have my rokus set up on a network served by a netgear (infrant) readynas and have managed to set an automated "power off" timer. I was previously using m-alarm on the NSLU2 which worked really well as a remote-control based sleep timer but have had to retire my NSLU2.

To set up the automated power off you will need to install "expect". On the readynas this is simple if you have installed apt-get (download from the netgear site and install throught the readynas frontend) and ssh:
-login via ssh
-install expect using "apt-get install expect"
-create an expect script (use nano as text editor or upload a file) eg:
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 20
spawn telnet 192.168.1.98 4444
expect ">"
send "rcp\n"
expect "roku: ready"
send "IrDispatchCommand CK_POWER_OFF\n"
expect "IrDispatchCommand: OK"
send "exit\n"
expect ">"
send "exit\n"
-save the file eg to roku_poweroff
-add the script to /etc/crontab eg
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
25 6 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron
00 21 * * * root expect roku_poweroff > roku_poweroff.log
#
(this provides switch off at 9pm nightly)

[FrankB]

I'm pretty sure that there is not an IR code that exists in the firmware. I tried all the IR codes using a universal remote and did not find alarm or sleep. It's hardware buttons or RCP only as far as I can tell.

I just wish I could do this using the remote rather than having to turn on my PC. Too bad there isn't a V2 of the remote that would allow you to do this.

Frank

[Johnny87]

I just read about the new game sleep function and it sounds awesome! "The Game Sleep function allows a player to sleep their game at any point and return to the cross media bar on the PSP to do other things — no saving required." This is all I ever wanted the stupid thing to do! It would always do it for movies! I could stop a UMD movie or a digital movie and play a game, then quit out and pick up where I left off on the movie. But it would never work for the games (game - to movie - back to game) unless the game had that function built in. Dammit, no more reasons to get a PSPgo! Its not fair - I love my PSP-2000 and they keep adding functions to the new model when I don't even know if my UMD games/movies will even carry over!

[JustMike]

The sleep timing function was never exposed on the M-series SoundBridge units because it was part of the clock software which mostly needed the higher-resolution display in the Radio in order to display the interface. It's nice that it's available in the control protocol.