[mythtv-users] Using Mythutil to send messages

[Chris Kapp]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just messing around with mythutil to see if I might have any
> applications for its OSD message sending.
>
> I tried the commandline:
>  mythutil --message --message_text='Testing 1,2,3' --timeout=30
>
> And received this:
>
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.692305 C  mythutil version: fixes/0.25
> [v0.25-51-g1a671d0] www.mythtv.org
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.692402 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.692529 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.692689 I  Added logging to the console
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.692715 I  Added database logging to table logging
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.696042 N  Setting up SIGHUP handler
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.696363 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.696406 N  Using configuration directory = /home/ian/.mythtv
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.697904 I  Assumed character encoding: en_CA.UTF-8
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.749647 N  Empty LocalHostName.
> 2012-04-22 17:59:25.749677 I  Using localhost value of buster
> 2012-04-22 17:59:26.009194 N  Setting QT default locale to EN_CA
> 2012-04-22 17:59:26.009233 I  Current locale EN_CA
> 2012-04-22 17:59:26.079063 N  Reading locale defaults from
> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_ca.xml
> name: message_text -- value: Testing 1,2,3
> name: timeout -- value: 30
> output:
> <mythmessage version="1">
>  <text>Testing 1,2,3</text>
>  <timeout>30</timeout>
> </mythmessage>
> Sent UDP/XML packet to IP 255.255.255.255 and port: 6948
>
> But nothing appeared on the TV screen. Am I doing anything wrong?
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Hi,
Try adding:
--bcastaddr 0.0.0.0

or you can change 0.0.0.0 for the ip address of the specific front end.