[PROBLEM] XBMC not respawning after crash

[mihailescu2m]

It happens sometimes that XBMC crashes (I had some when pausing/resuming airplay video). I was expecting XBMC to respawn, however, this is not happening.

The screen is black, service xbmc status shows that xbmc is not running, and I have to SSH to the pi and do a service xbmc start. Aren't daemons suppose to respawn?

[kraleksandr]

U can map one button of ur remote for this.
To do this u have to:

Terminal

sudoedit /etc/lirc/hardware/lirc_rpi.conf

then uncomment and set

Code:

START_IREXEC=true

Terminal

sudoedit /etc/lirc/lircrc

add this

Code:

begin
    prog = irexec
    button = key_karaoke
    config = sudo /home/xbian/xbres.sh &
end

Quote:button is the button of ur remote (from remote.conf)
config is mapped action

Terminal

sudoedit /etc/sudoers

add this

Code:

xbian ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/xbian/xbres.sh

Terminal

nano ~/xbres.sh

add this

Code:

#!/bin/bash
service xbmc restart

then

Terminal

sudo chmod +x ~/xbres.sh
sudo reboot

[mihailescu2m]

I did it in another way, since I am not using lirc but cec
When xbmc exits, it starts a daemon that monitors HDMI routing changes, and starts xbmc. So I would just switch to TV and then back to HDMI and xbmc would restart...

[slackhead]

(14th May, 2013 11:35 PM)kraleksandr Wrote:  U can map one button of ur remote for this.

Thank you - just came here looking to find how to do exactly this. Works a treat.