[mythtv-users] Ways to jump to a window at startup

Tobias Maier diespambox at gmx.net
Thu Sep 9 11:32:38 UTC 2010


Chris Adams <rocket at extremelan.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking into programming some buttons on my remote to launch
> mythfrontend directly into various screens. For instance say a user
> presses the "Guide" button, mythfrontend launches and the user is
> immediately presented with the EPG. Bypassing the menus.
> 
> The only way I can think of is to launch mythfrontend then frantically
> poll the telnet socket so I can send it a jump command before the menu
> is displayed. Haven't tried it (yet) but it seems this will flicker
> since the main menu will display briefly then be replaced by the
> desired screen. Not a great user experience, but acceptable.
> 
> Has anyone done this? Is there a more elegant way?
> 
> NB. Sadly the only relevant command-line option I could find is one to
> launch a plugin. So MythVideo could be started this way but not the
> EPG or the watch recordings screen.
I think you can directly start a plugin if you create a symlink to
mythfrontend with the plugin name an use the symlink to start the
frontend.

Tobi


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