If the frontend or backend dies, it is dying for a reason. While your's is a good idea, it is best to investigate why the death has occured first before restarting the process.

I cant pin down my Frontend crashes either - so i thought i would try this as a stopgap.
Set it up and tested it. Exiting the Frontend manually caused the frontend to resart (great!)
however after a crash it did not restart - I suspect the frontend is either zombied or hung in this case

anyone know how i can detect this (via ps -elf for eg) - if required i suppose i could write a nasty script to poll for the hung process and kill it.

NOTE: this can be used to restart whatever you want, but here I use to to restart mythfrontend

Well, I'm sure all of you at one point in time have had mythfrontend crash on you. It's easy to restart, but if your loved one(s) use your mythtv box, they may not be able to! Well, here is an easy way to be able to use your remote to easily restart mythfrontend! The following will cause a small box to pop up onscreen allowing you so select whether or not you'd like to restart mythfrontend.

Note: I have a Hauppauge PVR-250 remote, if you don't you may have to adjust the buttons accordingly

Without further adue...

We will be using irexec and irxevent to do this, as well as xdialog to make the popup, so first:



Note, this will move your /etc/lircd.conf to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf, so you will have to copy it back.

Next we have to configure irxevent and irexec to start when X is started, so we add the following lines to /home/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc (this is at the bottom of the file)



Also, we want to change the focus model in .fvwmrc to make the popup box come to the front, and focus, so make these changes to the .fvwm2rc file as well:

Comment out


and add


Then comment out


And save.

With that done, we will now create a simple script to make the popup:

With your favourite editor, create a file (I called mine restartmyth.sh) with the following in it:



Then copy it to somewhere in your path...I chose /usr/bin.

Next, give proper permissions to mythtv user, so (as root):



Next, we want to bind this script to a key on the remote, so edit your /home/mythtv/.lircrc and add these lines:



Note, you can configure the buttons to be whatever you want. Note that I set "GO" to launch this popup dialog, and I set left and right and OK buttons so I can go back and forth and select. Also note that if you bind the left and right keys using irxevent, you will want have to comment out the other left/right keybindings in your .lircrc or else you will be passing the commands twice

Now, save, and reboot...that's it!

Enjoy.

I tried lirc-reconfig.sh as root. Selected the type as hauppage and the remote type as silver. It gave the following msgs

Stopping lirc daemon: lircmd lircd.
Starting lirc daemon: lircdDriver `default' not supported.
Supported drivers:
null

I tried lirc-reconfig.sh as root. Selected the type as hauppage and the remote type as silver. It gave the following msgs

Stopping lirc daemon: lircmd lircd.
Starting lirc daemon: lircdDriver `default' not supported.
Supported drivers:
null