[mythtv-users] Re: Starting mythtv using LIRC?
Pete Cable
petercable at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 06:23:23 UTC 2005
On 6/4/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/4/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > Sim wrote:
> >
> > >I use KDE and want to set the TV button my remote to start mythtv. Any
> ideas
> > >how to do this - i've tried using irxevent to pass a ctrl-t (which is
> the
> > >hotkey i setup in kde for mythtv) but that did not work.
> > >
> > >
I use irexec to do this. Here's the relevant section from my .lircrc
# Power Off/Exit
begin
prog = irexec
button = POWER
repeat = 4
config = /home/pete/.fluxbox/startmyth.pl
end
and here is my script to start myth...
#!/usr/bin/perl
$pid=`pgrep mythfrontend`;
if ($pid) {
print "mythfrontend running, $pid\n";
}
else {
print "starting mythfrontend\n";
system("mythfrontend &");
}
The script just keeps you from accidentally firing off a 2nd
mythfrontend when one is already running. All you need after that is
to make sure irexec is running. I have a script that runs on login to
fluxbox to fire off irexec, once again just making sure I don't end up
with two copies running:
#!/bin/bash
killall irexec
irexec &
Hope this helps...
--
Pete
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