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Author:  kmkittre [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:33 pm ]
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Has anyone had any issues with Hulu locking up on them? I haven't looked at my logs yet, but my wife was trying to watch yesterday and she wasn't able to get through a single show. The only way to unlock was to restart the frontend...

Author:  Too Many Secrets [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:52 pm ]
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well I can get the app to run nicely if I restart lircd with the -r switch from the commandline. lircd -r then pkill xinit and it works.

problem isn't solved for a normal restart

in other news... the hulu app seems to play commercials over programs. hitting the OK button pauses the stream and allows commercial to play. OK again resumes. maybe i need to change the button...

Author:  cecil [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:42 pm ]
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I find it odd that Hulu hasn't replied to my inquiry about include a LinHES package for huludesktop. :? I'll update runit-scripts in testing w/ a lircd run file that just works.

Author:  cecil [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:59 pm ]
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Code:
sudo pacman -Sy runit-scripts
Or update via the Service Menu. I've tested this for a few days w/o issue regards LIRC and other apps that use it. Please let me know if you have any issues. Oh, you'll need to restart LIRCD afterwards
Code:
sudo sv restart lircd

Author:  Too Many Secrets [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:11 pm ]
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Thx Cecil, this is working great for me. This really has killer app written all over it, imo.

Author:  cecil [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:24 pm ]
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Too Many Secrets wrote:
This really has killer app written all over it, imo.
You're welcome. You mean LinHES right?! ;)

Author:  kmkittre [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:09 am ]
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Okay, this is working for me now if I do as Secrets mentioned above: stop the lircd service, start it manually with the -r, and then pkill xinit. I ran the pacman -Sy runit-scripts as cecil posted, but it's still not working without a manual start... I even tried rebooting the machine.

Is there something else I need to setup? Should I have the "-r" under conf.d/lircd under EXTRAOPTS? What step am I missing?

Also, I'd like an option to force-kill Hulu if it crashes. Would I need to write a shell script for that?

Edit: should I have a newer modified date on my /etc/sv/lircd/run script? The date on this file for me is 2009-9-08.

Author:  kmkittre [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:21 am ]
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I can see now that pacman really doesn't appear to be working entirely on my frontend... I mean I had to manually create the install_hulu.sh script, and I can see by looking at the repository notes that this newest change should be updating my run script but it doesn't appear to be...

Could this be a permissions issue? What do I need to do?

Author:  kmkittre [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:28 am ]
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Okay, I see now what my problem was

I didn't realize that I couldn't run [core] and [extra] along with the testing repositories... Once I commented out the non-testing repositories the script updated properly.

I will once again (boy this is starting to get old...) apologize for my naivete...

Author:  kmkittre [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:41 am ]
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Quick question: so far I've only enabled the testing repositories on my frontend. I'm running the stable repositories on my backend. So far this hasn't created any problems, but should I put my backend on the testing repositories as well to avoid any potential conflicts?

Author:  Too Many Secrets [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:15 am ]
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cecil wrote:
Too Many Secrets wrote:
This really has killer app written all over it, imo.
You're welcome. You mean LinHES right?! ;)


Yeah, and especially as quickly as you and the testers integrate new features into LinHES! You had this app out and running before most had even heard about it's existence. Kudos to Cecil and the rest of the team.

Actually this hulu app, could let some cut back on some cable bills... The HD versions are totally acceptable imo. Even the lessor quality vids are better then what I'm seeing out of my pvr card shown on my HDTV.

Now for Netflix to make their streaming software available to linux/LinHES users...

Author:  Too Many Secrets [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:15 am ]
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kmkittre wrote:
Quick question: so far I've only enabled the testing repositories on my frontend. I'm running the stable repositories on my backend. So far this hasn't created any problems, but should I put my backend on the testing repositories as well to avoid any potential conflicts?


IDK the answer, but it might be worth it's own thread.?

Author:  kmkittre [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:25 pm ]
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Too Many Secrets wrote:
kmkittre wrote:
Quick question: so far I've only enabled the testing repositories on my frontend. I'm running the stable repositories on my backend. So far this hasn't created any problems, but should I put my backend on the testing repositories as well to avoid any potential conflicts?


IDK the answer, but it might be worth it's own thread.?


Good point... Sorry for the attempted thread hijack ;-)

Author:  kmkittre [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:19 pm ]
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I just got a popup in Hulu desktop (I think it was in there) that there was a new version available. I downloaded the latest version and ran it like I was installing it new. I don't know how to check versions though, or even if I'm running the latest version. Is there a better way to upgrade? I had to redo the remote configuration in /home/mythtv/.huludesktop. I'd like to avoid that if I can...

Author:  kmkittre [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:40 pm ]
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Oi! and now that I upgraded I'm getting the damn EULA popup everytime I launch Hulu Desktop...

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