Is there a way to check to see if XMBC is responsive from the command line?
(I'm running Ubuntu)
XBMC hangs occasionally - and I'd like to create a shell script to restart it automatically.
YES. Putty program (the network) ... or key combination: ctrl + alt + F2
This is the XBMC-live!
Quote:YES. Putty program (the network) ... or key combination: ctrl + alt + F2
This is the XBMC-live!
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Quote:Is there a way to check to see if XBMC is responsive from the command line?
xbmc have a web server and a JSON server I guess you can query one of them.
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xbmc have a web server and a JSON server I guess you can query one of them.
Do you have an example of how you would do that?
Or is the JSON interface documented anywhere?
No, I never had the need. If it is not easily done in bash try pyhthon.
It may be better to map a re-start script to a remote button using irexec. Not sure how irexec works together with xbmc-live but in standard ubuntu it worked fine.
If anyone is interested - here is what I'm using:
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while :
do
if ! wget -q -S --connect-timeout=3 -O /dev/null -T 3 --tries=3 "http://127.0.0.1:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=GetCurrentlyPlaying()" > /dev/null
then
killall -9 xbmc xbmc.bin
fi
sleep 5
done
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