Hi,
I added a button to my R5A16 optical_menu.xml which I think is a nice enhancement, and in 3 out of four boxes, the menu and the button work fine. One got broke.
When I select Optical Disks the error message is : "The menu file optical_menu.xml is incomplete"

Here is the button I added,

<button>
<type>DVD</type>
<text>Eject DVD</text>
<action>EXEC umount /dev/dvd;eject hdc</action>
</button>

I have checked, double checked for typos, even copied a working menu to replace the suspected file. Any hints?

If anyone adds this button (no warrenties) and it makes your machine appear to lock up, get the paper clip because the drawer is just stuck. As soon as the drawer opens all is well again.

Mike

What does the whole file look like? You did add this BEFORE the line that says
right?

Hi tjc

That cut right to the quick however am glad that you asked as it made me go dig deep for details. I did an ls -al on the file and noticed it was longer than a good file altho the text was the same. Tried a copy across network and came out same way. On a whim, copied from my install floppy and now works properly.

The only change to the file was to insert this code before the end of " optical_menu.xml" Even changed the <text>label to try again. It seems something may be hidden.

Thanks for the push as this now works (4 out of 4)
Mike

Bad.. ls -al /usr/share/mythtv/optical_menu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 1870 Aug 20 00:44 /usr/share/mythtv/optical_menu.xml

<button>
<type>DVD</type>
<text>Eject Optical</text>
<action>EXEC umount /dev/cdrom;eject hdc</action>
</button>

</mythmenu>

That's quite a funkly little mod. It's working fine on my system, I just coppied:

Into my /usr/share/mythtv/optical_menu.xml file.

I have to admit that being able to eject a dvd from the remote it ultimatly pointless, but I still like it and it was a nice little introduction into editing the mythtv menus.

Cheers

Mephi

Hi Mephi,

Thanks for the feedback. I do a lot of that kind of stupid stuff but it is fun to play and sometimes I actually learn something. If you had two drives, you could put in two buttons, one for hdc & one for hdd It does really serve a purpose too as sometimes the manual eject won't work because the drive is still mounted.

Have a good day
Mike

Didn't mean to be cutting, only to get enough facts to diagnose the problem. The next step was to ask for a hex dump using hd to look for invisble characters that might be giving you grief. Standard debugging protocol.

Hi tjc,

Oh I know it wasn't meant to be mean so no hard feelings. The simple littlescript sort of perplexed me for a bit since I had rebuilt it a couple of times across the network. Once I did the physical copy from a floppy and all was ok, I too suspect I must have fat fingered in something less than hex 20.

Thanks for the pointers as it prompted a different approch.

If you have a moment, would see if you have an idea for this question?
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5771

Thanks
Mike