[mythtv-users] EXEC command in MythTV menu

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Phill,

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 10:34:24 AM, you wrote:

> I'm trying to call Kodi from a MythTV menu. The menu runs an EXEC
> command to run a shell script which:


> a) starts up a VPN connection on the Mythfrontend machine, and then
> b) runs Kodi 


> When I run the command manually from a command prompt (minus the
> "EXEC") everything works fine. But when I select the menu item
> nothing happens. The menu command is:


> EXEC cat /home/phill/.pme-password | sudo -kS
> ./kodi_start_with_vpn.sh philledwards at gmail.com_au-syd_D29AC.conf



> Any suggestions as to why it works from a command prompt but not
> from the MythTV menu? Or how I can get some debug info to find out what's going on?

Have you tried putting your entire command line in a shell script,
calling that in mythtv?
If that works it could be mythtv is not calling a completely
initialized shell.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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