[mythtv-users] mythmessage - what I learned

[Dave Badia]

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On Jun 24, 2012 11:19 PM, "Michelle Dupuis" <mdupuis at ocg.ca> wrote:
>
> based on reading lots of posts, I thought I would summarize for any
others interested:
> 1. The wiki is wrong - the default port in use my mythmessage is 6948
(not 6549)
> 2. The wiki is wrong - mythmessage won't listen to broadcasts, only
packets directed just to that IP
> 3. The wiki is incomplete - the timeout for messages ONLY applies while
playback is in progress.  Otherwise, timeout is ignored and an OK button
appears and the message stays on screen, and queue up.
>
> And of interest...messages queue up on screen!  So if you plan to use
mythmessage interface to show CID info, you may find 100 dialog boxes
queued up all waiting for an OK click...when you return to the frontend
>
> yuk....

I just went through this myself.  I tweaked my cid script to query each fe
and only send the message if playback was in progress to avoid messages
piling up on the other fes.

>
> hopefully future versions will allot the timeouw to work even if a menu
is onscreen!
>
> ________________________________
> 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 6:55 PM
> To: Myth TV Users List
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythUtil - can't show a message on frontend
>
> 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...
> ________________________________
> 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
> 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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Dave
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