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RacerX
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 Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:27 pm |
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Currently i have three boxes
1.) Mythwelcome R8 Master BE/FE that works on the recording schedule
2.) Mythfrontend R8 FE
3.) Ach Server box for Storage (Library)
A lot of times the R8 Master BE/FE is off and I would prefer to use the R8 Frontend to access the Arch box Library via Xbmc
When R8 first came out I could run legacy mode and then Xbmc.sh and this was fine. Recently when I run legacy mode I'm confronted with the messsage "connecting to mythbackend" and it does not go away.
Is there way to handle this without starting up up the Mythwelcome Box?
Thanks
Last edited by RacerX on Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:18 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:46 pm |
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No idea if there is a native solution to this but a simple script that pings the MBE and if a response is given, launches mythfronend or if no response is given launches xbmc would work. You'll have to set this to start at login obviously. I also don't know the paths that LH is using for programs so edit accordingly. Something like: Code: #!/bin/bash
# edit to match the IP of your MBE
masterbackend=192.168.1.3
ping -c 1 $masterbackend &>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
# server is down so launch xbmc
/usr/bin/xbmc
else
# server is up so launch mythfrontend
/usr/bin/mythfrontend --logpath /tmp
fi
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RacerX
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:21 pm |
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Super, here is the info Code: #!/bin/bash
# edit to match the IP of your MBE
masterbackend=192.168.1.4
ping -c 1 $masterbackend &>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
# server is down so launch xbmc
/usr/LH/bin/xbmc.sh
else
# server is up so launch mythfrontend
/usr/bin/mythfrontend --logpath /tmp
fi How do kick it off at boot up?
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graysky
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:07 am |
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RacerX wrote: How do kick it off at boot up? You need to figure out how LH does it... to disable that and replace it with that script. Have you looked in ~/.config/autostart for .desktop files that do it?
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:48 am |
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RacerX wrote: How do kick it off at boot up? From http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/R8 Quote: Frontend system, will run /etc/X11/autostart when starting up regardless of the windowmanger selected. If you need to start custom things for X, this is the place to put it.
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RacerX
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:06 pm |
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I looked for Quote: /etc/X11/autostart do I need create it? Code: ls -l /etc/X11 Code: total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 28 22:32 Sessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 Oct 12 15:39 WINDOWMANAGER
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 2013 xinit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 16 13:36 xorg.conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Oct 13 01:21 XvMCConfig
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graysky
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:02 pm |
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RacerX wrote: I looked for Quote: /etc/X11/autostart do I need create it? If it's not there then I can't see how that could be launching the frontend. Post the output of: Code: ls -l /home/mythtv/.config/autostart
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RacerX
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:55 pm |
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Code: ls -l /home/mythtv/.config/autostart
ls: cannot access /home/mythtv/.config/autostart: No such file or directory Code: find / -name "autostart"
/usr/share/wm_data/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart It seems to me that it runs from /etc/X11/Sessions/LinHES
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jams
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:36 pm |
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you can turn off the backend ping check in the service menu
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RacerX
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:41 pm |
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Quote: you can turn off the backend ping check in the service menu Sure you can but that doesn't stop the connect to "connecting to mythbackend" going for infinity In the sql world (tcpip, named pipes) everything in available all the time. But in my world it's only as needed since I pay the bill. I really like the idea of the batch file from Graysky  . It is simple and elegant. But figuring out how to get it in there seems challenging.
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jams
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:59 pm |
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well if it doesn't stop it thats a bug, when disabled it should skip the check completely and never perform it.
I'm referring to the msg "Waiting for connection to MythBackend", if thats not the one your referring to its a different story
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