Problem: XBMC not respawning after crash

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XBMC not respawning after crash - mihailescu2m - 14th May, 2013 08:44 AM

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?

RE: XBMC not respawning after crash - kraleksandr - 14th May, 2013 11:35 PM

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

RE: XBMC not respawning after crash - mihailescu2m - 16th May, 2013 09:09 AM

I did it in another way, since I am not using lirc but cec Smile

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...

RE: XBMC not respawning after crash - slackhead - 17th May, 2013 11:22 PM

(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.