2013-11-19, 00:20
Beginner here.
I followed the steps in this thread and have now got the LCD working beautifully with XBMC, thank you very much to everyone involved.
Since the computer I'm using this on is a multi-use machine, I prefer to have the LCDd service stopped when not using XBMC so that it displays the big clock. Then I have to manually start it again in the terminal [sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd start] so that XBMC can use it.
Is there any way I can link the above process to the XBMC process so that LCDd starts and stops automatically with XBMC? I realise that it is complicated by using root to start and stop the service whereas XBMC is run as a user but I would be very grateful if someone could please point me in the right direction.
I followed the steps in this thread and have now got the LCD working beautifully with XBMC, thank you very much to everyone involved.
Since the computer I'm using this on is a multi-use machine, I prefer to have the LCDd service stopped when not using XBMC so that it displays the big clock. Then I have to manually start it again in the terminal [sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd start] so that XBMC can use it.
Is there any way I can link the above process to the XBMC process so that LCDd starts and stops automatically with XBMC? I realise that it is complicated by using root to start and stop the service whereas XBMC is run as a user but I would be very grateful if someone could please point me in the right direction.