[mythtv-users] Troubles with Irtrans VFD

[tim dennis]

OK. so basically it boils down to this:

Mythfrontend 0.21 does not start mythlcdserver properly during initial
start.
Only by restarting the mythlcdserver after mythfrontend is running does the
VFD start to work (you can even let mythfrontend just auto restart
mythlcdserver after 10 seconds)

1) $ mythfrontend

2) ...wait a few seconds until frontend is up and running...

2) $ sudo pkill -HUP mythlcdserver

3) ...wait 10 seconds...

4) Bingo!! VFD starts to work (and works great thereafter)


I guess I could make a little startup script for this, but it is kind of
hackish, killing the LCD process just because it won't start properly the
first time round.

Should I open a ticket on the Mythtv trac server?

Tim




On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, tim dennis <tdennis.sub at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Another day, another test.
>
> As a follow up to the VFD problems I have been having below, I decided to
> check the response when  starting mythfrontend as per normal, then killing
> the mythlcdserver pid, then starting mythlcdserver manually.
>
> Basically the following:
>
> 1) Clean up:
> $ pkill -HUP mythlcdserver (just to be sure to kill of any residuals
> before test)
>
> 2) Start mythfrontend with verbose preferences:
> $ mythfrontend -v all,nodatabase,nomedia
>
> (Note: At this point mythfrontend has not connected to VFD display
> properly)
>
> 3) Find mythlcdserver PID:
> $ ps ax | grep mythlcdserver
>
> 4) Kill mythlcdserver PID
> $ sudo kill -9 3605
>
> 5) Manually start mythlcdserver with verbose preferences (within 10
> seconds)
> $ /usr/bin/mythlcdserver -v all -x 10
>
>
> The result is that after killing mythlcdserver and restarting it manually
> it connects perfectly and VFD starts displaying time and date, menu's
> work... everything is good.
>
> After this test I am now starting to believe that mythfrontend (as of
> 0.21) is somehow responsible for the problem...
>
> This afternoon I will start compiling and testing previous versions of
> LCDproc (0.5.2, 0.5.1, <tr_1208839197876>0.5.0... 0.4.3) just to be sure.
>
>
>
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