Heres what I got so far:
Code: Following Jarod Wilson’s Tips ‘n Tricks, the green Power button on the Hauppauge remote can now stop and start the MythTV front-end. This is really handy on the odd occasion when it freezes up for one reason or another. I just had to add the lines
begin
prog = irexec
button = OFF
repeat = 4
config = /usr/local/bin/mythpowerbutton.sh
end
to my ~/.lircrc file, and create the script /usr/local/bin/mythpowerbutton.sh containing
#!/bin/bash
PROG=mythfrontend
STATUS=`ps -e | grep $PROG | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
then
( $PROG & )
else
killall $PROG
fi
exit 0
Here is where he got the snippet from Jared's write up:
Code: Once in a blue moon, my wife calls me at work saying she messed something up, and doesn't know what to do. While its rare anymore that I see a frontend lockup, its annoying to have to shell in from work to kill it off and restart it. So I finally got around to implementing something a number of others had suggested on the mailing lists, and the power button on my remote now executes a script via irexec that kills the frontend if it is running, and starts it up if it isn't. So two quick key taps, and my wife can recover the frontend, instead of calling me. :-)
First off, I edited my ~/.lircrc file to include the following stanza:
# Power Button
begin
prog = irexec
button = OFF
#button = POWER # (for my RS15-2116 remote)
repeat = 4
config = /usr/local/bin/mythpowerbutton.sh
end
Note that we need irexec running to make this all work. It should already be getting launched by my myth-load.sh script, detailed in the main HOWTO. And finally, I created a trivial little shell script in /usr/local/bin/, called mythpowerbutton.sh. The basic contents of it are:
#!/bin/bash
PROG=mythfrontend
STATUS=`ps -e | grep $PROG | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ `echo $DISPLAY | grep -c ":0"` -ge 1 ]
then
if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
then
( $PROG & )
else
killall $PROG
fi
fi
exit 0
Remember to make that executable (# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mythpowerbutton.sh), and either log out and back in or start up irexec manually to see it function. I'd also remove any other .lircrc sections pertaining to the POWER button, or you may see multiple things happen at once. Not sure yet what will happen if I hit the button while, say, xine is in the foreground...
I cant wait to try this.
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