[mythtv-users] Help me find the magic combo (remote/lirc)

[Johnny Walker]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Jan Johansson <j2 at mupp.net> wrote:
>>So now that the LCDProc is working fine, lets look at your
>>mythfrontend logs during a startup to see what's happening when we try
>>to connect to the LCD.
>
> I suppose this is the important bit:
>
> 2009-12-30 11:26:04.105 mythfrontend version: trunk [23019]
> www.mythtv.org
> 2009-12-30 11:26:04.105 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2009-12-30 11:26:04.105 Using configuration directory =
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.025 Empty LocalHostName.
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.025 Using localhost value of MythBox
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.028 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.031 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.031 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.070 ScreenSaverX11Private: Gnome screen saver
> support enabled
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.094 DPMS is active.
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.110 Primary screen: 0.
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.114 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.115 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.150 MythUI Image Cache size set to 20971520 bytes
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.178 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.195 Starting mythlcdserver
> QWidget: Cannot create a QWidget when no GUI is being used
> 2009-12-30 11:26:05.727 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 1
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:06.233 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 2
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:06.734 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 3
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:07.234 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 4
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:07.734 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 5
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:08.235 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 6
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:08.735 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 7
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:09.235 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 8
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:09.736 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 9
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.236 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 10
> of 10)
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.755 Primary screen: 0.
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.755 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.764 Using theme base resolution of 1280x720
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.780 LIRC: Successfully initialized '/dev/lircd'
> using '/home/mythtv/.lircrc' config
> 2009-12-30 11:26:10.780 JoystickMenuThread Error: Joystick disabled -
> Failed to read /home/mythtv/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
> 2009-12-30 11:26:11.081 Using the OpenGL painter
> 2009-12-30 11:26:11.166 Loaded base theme from
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/metallurgy/base.xml
> 2009-12-30 11:26:11.332 Loaded base theme from
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/base.xml
> 2009-12-30 11:26:11.412 Loaded base theme from
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
> 2009-12-30 11:26:11.415 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer):
> 1247
>
>
> Now, the funny thing is this: I created a small script (again, Ubuntu
> 9.10)
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/local/bin/mythlcdserver --daemon --logfile
> /var/log/mythtv/mythlcdserver.log
> sleep 3
> /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log &
> /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --max-days 14 --refresh-all &
>
> This script works when I run it from a terminal. But it does NOT work if
> I run it from .config/autostart (In that case, it starts frontend, and
> runs mythfilldatabase, but LCD does NOT work.) What is the diff between
> runnin in xterm and running it from autostart?
>

I use Ubuntu 9.10 (mythbuntu actaully) and I didn't have to start
lcdserver by creating a script - I selected it in the Setup options as
a checkbox and I'm guessing that MythFrontend spawns that process for
me without my needing to bother with starting it manually.

Do you have that option check marked in your settings? What happens if
you stop trying to run your self maintained helper script and just let
Myth handle it?