[mythtv-users] Using Mythutil to send messages

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 22:04:32 UTC 2012


Just messing around with mythutil to see if I might have any
applications for its OSD message sending.

I tried the commandline:
 mythutil --message --message_text='Testing 1,2,3' --timeout=30

And received this:

2012-04-22 17:59:25.692305 C  mythutil version: fixes/0.25
[v0.25-51-g1a671d0] www.mythtv.org
2012-04-22 17:59:25.692402 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
2012-04-22 17:59:25.692529 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
2012-04-22 17:59:25.692689 I  Added logging to the console
2012-04-22 17:59:25.692715 I  Added database logging to table logging
2012-04-22 17:59:25.696042 N  Setting up SIGHUP handler
2012-04-22 17:59:25.696363 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
2012-04-22 17:59:25.696406 N  Using configuration directory = /home/ian/.mythtv
2012-04-22 17:59:25.697904 I  Assumed character encoding: en_CA.UTF-8
2012-04-22 17:59:25.749647 N  Empty LocalHostName.
2012-04-22 17:59:25.749677 I  Using localhost value of buster
2012-04-22 17:59:26.009194 N  Setting QT default locale to EN_CA
2012-04-22 17:59:26.009233 I  Current locale EN_CA
2012-04-22 17:59:26.079063 N  Reading locale defaults from
/usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_ca.xml
name: message_text -- value: Testing 1,2,3
name: timeout -- value: 30
output:
<mythmessage version="1">
  <text>Testing 1,2,3</text>
  <timeout>30</timeout>
</mythmessage>
Sent UDP/XML packet to IP 255.255.255.255 and port: 6948

But nothing appeared on the TV screen. Am I doing anything wrong?


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