Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:02 +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second time and it will...) ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol Ahhh. But this solution, prefixed by going to a jump-point -- where the number of ESC's needed to exit are known could work. excellent idea Would look ugly though, all the screen flipping just before exiting. agreed An exit jump point is really what is needed I think. I think so too.. shouldn't be too difficult for a programmer I would imagine b. c. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:02 +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > >Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown > >confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 > >chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. > >(Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if > >it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second > >time and it will...) > > > > > > > ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol Ahhh. But this solution, prefixed by going to a jump-point -- where the number of ESC's needed to exit are known could work. Would look ugly though, all the screen flipping just before exiting. An exit jump point is really what is needed I think. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second time and it will...) ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: > am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send > half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take > you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your > asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second time and it will...) -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:21 +0100, David Watkins wrote: AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. Indeed. But IMHO, if you are going to catch SIGTERM, it would be nice to pop up that "are you sure you want to quit dialog". That way accidental presses of the power button can be aborted. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. That one's not "course", it's ruthless. :-) b. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users hey am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm just a thought Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:21 +0100, David Watkins wrote: > > AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it > making a graceful exit. Indeed. But IMHO, if you are going to catch SIGTERM, it would be nice to pop up that "are you sure you want to quit dialog". That way accidental presses of the power button can be aborted. > I thought that was what kill -9 was for. That one's not "course", it's ruthless. :-) b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
David Watkins wrote: On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so "coarse". AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. I was annoyed enough by the lack of reasonable method for quitting mythfrontend with a remote, that I made some patches to handle it - added another event called SHUTDOWN, and assigned it to my remote's power button - which then gived a (modified) menu of Cancel or Exit & Shutdown. I didn't bother sending the patches upstream, as they're for libmyth, which is being made obsolete. --Jo Shields ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: > > You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills > > the frontend: > > Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so > "coarse". AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: > You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills > the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so "coarse". I would really prefer a more graceful exiting of mythfrontend; that confirms exit just like pressing Esc a bunch of times. It really seems that Exit needs to be a jump point (I think). Thanx for the idea though. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php (half way down, about the "wife button") I used a slightly tweaked out version which will also try to restart the backend if it's not running, but that isn't as useful as I thought. --- "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to program lircrc to immediately go to the > "shutdown" > screen when I hit the power control button on my remote? > > I know how to program lircrc and so, just not sure if there is a way > in > myth to "press a key" to immediately do what a bunch of 's will > do. > > Is this what is called "jump points"? Is there a jump point for > exit? > I'm not seeing one in mythweb's key bindings screen. > > Short of a jump point, anyone got any ideas? > > Thanx, > b. > > -- > My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. > > Brian J. Murrell > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Is there any way to program lircrc to immediately go to the "shutdown" screen when I hit the power control button on my remote? I know how to program lircrc and so, just not sure if there is a way in myth to "press a key" to immediately do what a bunch of 's will do. Is this what is called "jump points"? Is there a jump point for exit? I'm not seeing one in mythweb's key bindings screen. Short of a jump point, anyone got any ideas? Thanx, b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users