[mythtv-users] MythUtil - can't show a message on frontend

[Michelle Dupuis]

I actually got it working in mythutil by specifying a single IP as the broadcast (strange):

mythutil --message --message_text "Hi There" --timeout  5 -v --bcastaddr 172.31.254.58

but I really want it to work using netcat so I don't have to compile mythutil on other systems which send the message.  Any advice on how to make netcat work with this?

Oh...and the 5 second timeout has no effect...I still have to click OK each time onscreen.  Hopefully there is a workaround for that too...
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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis [mdupuis at ocg.ca]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:47 PM
To: Myth TV Users List
Subject: [mythtv-users] MythUtil - can't show a message on frontend

I am trying to show a message onscreen on my .25 frontend.  I have tried using mythutil and netcat, but neither works.  The syntax (and output) is below of both methods.  Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

Thanks!


nc -v -u -w 0 172.31.254.58 6548 < /tmp/testmess

or


[mythtv at mythlivingroom ~]$ mythutil --message --message_text "Hi There" --timeout 5
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969127 C  mythutil version:  [v0.25] www.mythtv.org<http://www.mythtv.org>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969160 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969209 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969391 I  Added logging to the console
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969415 I  Added database logging to table logging
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969600 N  Setting up SIGHUP handler
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970067 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970128 N  Using configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970560 I  Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
2012-06-24 18:41:02.971698 N  Empty LocalHostName.
2012-06-24 18:41:02.971725 I  Using localhost value of mythlivingroom.ocg.ca
2012-06-24 18:41:02.972185 I  Testing network connectivity to '172.31.254.84'
2012-06-24 18:41:02.975012 I  Starting process manager
2012-06-24 18:41:02.975350 I  Starting process signal handler
2012-06-24 18:41:02.981979 I  Starting IO manager (read)
2012-06-24 18:41:02.982316 I  Starting IO manager (write)
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161003 N  Setting QT default locale to en_CA
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161025 I  Current locale en_CA
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161169 N  Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_ca.xml
name: message_text -- value: Hi There
name: timeout -- value: 5
output:
<mythmessage version="1">
  <text>Hi There</text>
  <timeout>5</timeout>
</mythmessage>
Sent UDP/XML packet to IP 255.255.255.255 and port: 6948
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