modern day i expect to not have to turn off/on my receiver: it should wake on input and go into a standby state after so much inactivity.

hence my problem: i’ve got the Technics receiver + stereo speakers i inherited, but if you leave the receiver on for more than a couple days without explicitly venting it’ll cut out (even if it’s inactive: its idle power draw is incredible). that’s fine for me, but if i’m the only one who cares about audio, it’s a hassle for everyone else in the house to manually flip the rocker switch on as they use the tv and off when they’re done.

now i think about it, there’s probably some “smart outlet” i could get to make this transparent.