2008-12-24, 11:29
I had XBMC lockup completely tonight. Nothing worked, no buttons on the remote worked, no keys on the keyboard did anything, no mouse movement, nothing.
On the old XBox I'd just hit the big power button and 5 seconds later we'd be back up and running. On my Linux HTPC it's also got MythTV running and at the time there were 4 shows recording so that wasn't an option. Even without the MythTV complication, a soft machine reset is at least a 30 second wait.
I'm using a Wii Remote and the Event Client running in a separate process still seemed to be working fine because I could power off the Wii Remote and then reconnect using buttons 1 + 2 and the remote vibrated like it normally does when it connects to XBMC.
Is there anyway for an Event Client to detect if XBMC is actually responding to the events it's sending?
If XBMC isn't responding, is there anyway to restart it?
I really want XBMC to be my frontend rather than the MythTV frontend, but I need some sort of solution to restart XBMC when it locks up which, based on previous experience, will be at least three times a week with the myth:// integration. Eventually the HTPC won't have a keyboard or mouse, just the Wii Remote.
On the old XBox I'd just hit the big power button and 5 seconds later we'd be back up and running. On my Linux HTPC it's also got MythTV running and at the time there were 4 shows recording so that wasn't an option. Even without the MythTV complication, a soft machine reset is at least a 30 second wait.
I'm using a Wii Remote and the Event Client running in a separate process still seemed to be working fine because I could power off the Wii Remote and then reconnect using buttons 1 + 2 and the remote vibrated like it normally does when it connects to XBMC.
Is there anyway for an Event Client to detect if XBMC is actually responding to the events it's sending?
If XBMC isn't responding, is there anyway to restart it?
I really want XBMC to be my frontend rather than the MythTV frontend, but I need some sort of solution to restart XBMC when it locks up which, based on previous experience, will be at least three times a week with the myth:// integration. Eventually the HTPC won't have a keyboard or mouse, just the Wii Remote.