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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">based on reading lots of posts, I thought I would summarize for any others interested:</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">1. The wiki is wrong - the default port in use my mythmessage is 6948 (not 6549)</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">2. The wiki is wrong - mythmessage won't listen to broadcasts, only packets directed just to that IP</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">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.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">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</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">yuk....</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">hopefully future versions will allot the timeouw to work even if a menu is onscreen!</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis [mdupuis@ocg.ca]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Myth TV Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] MythUtil - can't show a message on frontend<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">I actually got it working in mythutil by specifying a single IP as the broadcast (strange):</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">mythutil --message --message_text "Hi There" --timeout 5 -v --bcastaddr 172.31.254.58</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman">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?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman">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...</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis [mdupuis@ocg.ca]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Myth TV Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mythtv-users] MythUtil - can't show a message on frontend<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">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?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Thanks!</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">nc -v -u -w 0 172.31.254.58 6548 < /tmp/testmess</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">or</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">[mythtv@mythlivingroom ~]$ mythutil --message --message_text "Hi There" --timeout 5<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969127 C mythutil version: [v0.25] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org" target="_blank">
www.mythtv.org</a><br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969160 N Enabled verbose msgs: general<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969209 N Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969391 I Added logging to the console<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969415 I Added database logging to table logging<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.969600 N Setting up SIGHUP handler<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970067 N Using runtime prefix = /usr<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970128 N Using configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.970560 I Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.971698 N Empty LocalHostName.<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.971725 I Using localhost value of mythlivingroom.ocg.ca<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.972185 I Testing network connectivity to '172.31.254.84'<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.975012 I Starting process manager<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.975350 I Starting process signal handler<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.981979 I Starting IO manager (read)<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:02.982316 I Starting IO manager (write)<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161003 N Setting QT default locale to en_CA<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161025 I Current locale en_CA<br>
2012-06-24 18:41:03.161169 N Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_ca.xml<br>
name: message_text -- value: Hi There<br>
name: timeout -- value: 5<br>
output:<br>
<mythmessage version="1"><br>
<text>Hi There</text><br>
<timeout>5</timeout><br>
</mythmessage><br>
Sent UDP/XML packet to IP 255.255.255.255 and port: 6948</div>
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