[SOLVED] Automatically starting a webradio stream at start up

[f1vefour]

This is a hack but I tested it and it works.

First do this:

Terminal

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc

Then copy this linked file to /usr/local/lib/xbmc/ and run this:

http://db.tt/tf3uaUIL

Terminal

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin

The contents of the downloaded file:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
IP="206.190.36.45"
COUNT=10

until [ $COUNT -lt 1 ]; do
    ping -c 1 $IP > /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
       echo "network up"
       /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc --standalone
       break
    else
       echo "network down"
    fi
    let COUNT-=1
    sleep 1
done

Note: XBMC will fail to start if the network is totally down. The IP address used is yahoo.com (what we used back when I was an ISP tech).

To undo do this:

Terminal

sudo rm /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin