[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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