<br>OK. so basically it boils down to this:<br><br>Mythfrontend 0.21 does not start mythlcdserver properly during initial start.<br>Only by restarting the mythlcdserver after mythfrontend is running does the VFD start to work (you can even let mythfrontend just auto restart mythlcdserver after 10 seconds)<br>
<br>1) $ mythfrontend<br><br>2) ...wait a few seconds until frontend is up and running...<br><br>2) $ sudo pkill -HUP mythlcdserver<br><br>3) ...wait 10 seconds...<br><br>4) Bingo!! VFD starts to work (and works great thereafter)<br>
<br><br>I guess I could make a little startup script for this, but it is kind of hackish, killing the LCD process just because it won't start properly the first time round.<br><br>Should I open a ticket on the Mythtv trac server?<br>
<br>Tim<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, tim dennis <<a href="mailto:tdennis.sub@gmail.com">tdennis.sub@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Another day, another test.<br><br>As a follow up to the VFD problems I have been having below, I decided to check the response when starting mythfrontend as per normal, then killing the mythlcdserver pid, then starting mythlcdserver manually.<br>
<br>Basically the following:<br><br>1) Clean up:<br>$ pkill -HUP mythlcdserver (just to be sure to kill of any residuals before test)<br><br>2) Start mythfrontend with verbose preferences:<br>$ mythfrontend -v all,nodatabase,nomedia<br>
<br>(Note: At this point mythfrontend has not connected to VFD display properly)<br><br>3) Find mythlcdserver PID:<br>$ ps ax | grep mythlcdserver<br><br>4) Kill mythlcdserver PID<br>$ sudo kill -9 3605<br><br>5) Manually start mythlcdserver with verbose preferences (within 10 seconds)<div class="Ih2E3d">
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$ /usr/bin/mythlcdserver -v all -x 10<br><br><br></div>The result is that after killing mythlcdserver and restarting it manually it connects perfectly and VFD starts displaying time and date, menu's work... everything is good.<br>
<br>After this test I am now starting to believe that mythfrontend (as of 0.21) is somehow responsible for the problem...<br><br>This afternoon I will start compiling and testing previous versions of LCDproc (0.5.2, 0.5.1,<a href="tr_1208839197876"> </a><a href="http://0.5.0.">0.5.0.</a>.. 0.4.3) just to be sure.<br>
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