One nice thing about Raspberry Pis for this sort of thing is that they support the full cec protocol, so can control other devices. I use hooked up mine to swit

One nice thing about Raspberry Pis for this sort of thing is that they support the full cec protocol, so can control other devices. I use hooked up mine to switch my TV on and off via an Amazon Echo: https://github.com/simonbyrne/fauxmo https://github.com/simonbyrne/fauxmo The only annoying thing is that my TV doesn't provide USB power while on standby, so I needed a separate power supply.