[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Andre Newman
<mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
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> Actually it’s all so quick that I had to change my system startup order in the Harmony remote, the frontend started before the projector is ready to do HDMI handshake, so now I start the Mythfrontend last.

I am sure you know this, but there are "hardware" solutions to
fake the HDMI handshake (solves this, and lots of other, issues),
and one can often (although your driver will vary) force specific
EDID values in the driver (once you determine what the right
ones are of course).  For nVidia, one may be able to use the
CustomEDID configuration file.

> There was also the problem that MythFrontend started before DHCP had responded, configuring for fixed IP solved that problem and made the startup even quicker.

All current distros provide a way to defer startup of services
until networking is "ready", usually with some obscure
incantation that involves sacrificing n00bs to your gods.
(or enable NetworkManager-wait-online and specify
after=network.target in the appropriate places for differently
behaved init systems).