Reload mythfrontend when crashed

[Rigor_M]

Hi,

Would it be possible to reload the mythfrontend when it crashes ?

When playing TV and I hit the ESC key, mythfrontend crashes. (using the 0.22-72 x86_64 version)

Wouls it be possible to insert a loop around the mythfrontend exec and if it crash, it would reload it self.

Could this be something that would be possible ?

any input on this would be great.

thanks !

Rigor_M

[Pablo]

If you have not already done so, then you might check out http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_Loading_Script

[freexe]

How would I add this to minimyth? Also, isn't this something that could be added fairly easily to the default build.

[Pablo]

Because it is mythfrontend that is keeping Xorg running, if mythfrontend exits, then Xorg exits. Therefore, such as script would not work.

MiniMyth includes mythwelcome for those that want a relatively easy way to restart the mythfrontend were mythfrontend to exit. If you set

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MM_X_MYTH_PROGRAM='mythwelcome'

in your minimyth.conf file, then MiniMyth will start mythwelcome. mythwelcome has a button that launches mythfrontend.

[freexe]

Thank you, I'll try that.