[mythtv-users] delay backend start til USB tuners initialize

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 12:53:15 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Hika van den Hoven wrote:

>> In the script starting the backend put sleep n in the line before the
>> actual starting command. Where n is a number of seconds of choice. You
>> have to experiment on how many seconds you need. Or you can check in
>> your log on when the last one comes up.

> Thanks for your reply, Hika. I've already put in a "sleep n" line. I just
> thought there might be a more sophisticated and/or accurate way. I'll take
> a look at the logs though and see what I can puzzle out about the timing
> from that.
> _______________________________________________

Maybe a check routine on the existence of the device-nodes in /dev. As
far as I know udev creates them after the full initialization is
finished.
Something like:
while [ ! -f /dev/... ]; do
      sleep 1
done


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