Hello,
I'm rather new to Raspberry Pi's, but I've watched some videos on Python and I'm a Industrial Automation programmer, so most of this stuff makes a bit of sense to me. What I'm trying to do:
The owner at our company has a large home theater setup we created on Irule. while it can do most of what we're looking for within the app, it has some short comings, the biggest one on sleep timers. due to the app shutting down each time the phone is locked or sleeps, it leaves a lot to be desired on the sleep timer aspect. currently we are initiating a sleep timer on the head unit and TV, both of which end up with a different time in them, but they do shut down. recently we installed Roku Express+, which does not pause when the TV and head unit shut down, resulting in him finding his roku 3 episodes or so ahead of where he wants to be.
I'm aware that Irule is quite good at initiating HTTP commands to devices, and I believe there should be a way for me to send one of these HTTP commands to the raspberry PI and begin my timing within it. after a set amount of time (possibly with variable buttons on the irule remote), send http commands to the 3 devices to initiate a power down and pause.
is this possible at all? I feel like there should be some way to do what I'm looking for!