[mythtv-users] Starting mythfrontend remotely via web

[Wes Brown]

That webmyth_service.cpp runs on the phone itself, not on the frontend host.
 I don't think it would have any way to trigger a frontend launch remotely.


I don't think this feature currently exists in mythwelcome, but the script
would be able to send a myth event to the backend which mythwelcome could
listen to and start the frontend.

BTW - i appreciate the effort put into looking at the code.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 2/23/2011 02:08, Wes Brown wrote:
> > Is there some way to start mythfrontend on a computer using just a web
> > browser?  I ask because I wrote a webOS app
> > (http://code.google.com/p/webmyth/) that can act a remote for a
> > frontend once it is started, but is limited to the frontend already be
> > up running.  It would be great if the app could just connect to some
> > local cgi script that could start up mythfrontend or something similar.
>
> Couldn't you just put a hook into this webmyth_service.cpp application
> to fork/execv off an instance of the frontend if none is found to be
> running?  You could set it up so it terminates mythwelcome, and
> maintains access to the frontend as a child process.  Once the child
> dies, start mythwelcome back up, bypassing the whole LIRC issue.
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