Official way to stop and restart kodi without reboot?

[Nachteule]

(18th Apr, 2016 06:43 AM)Skywatch Wrote:  Seems to go against the times and will confuse noobs who never knew what xbmc was and only want the new kodi....

Would be giant work to change everything from xbmc->kodi

a couple of package names
many many upstart scripts

If you want to do that you're be welcome

As a discussable alternative would be adding some wrapper scripts, so that noobs do not have to use their brain or search function here

[Nachteule]

Created simple command

Terminal

xbian@kmxbibr ~ $ kodi
usage:
kodi start|stop|status
xbian@kmxbibr ~ $ kodi stop
xbmc stop/waiting
xbian@kmxbibr ~ $ kodi start
xbmc start/running, process 2511
xbian@kmxbibr ~ $

No sudo required

Will be available with next update of package xbian-package-xbmc-scripts

[Skywatch]

I knew you could do it

[cmonty14]

Hi,
what is the technical background of using Upstart init manager with Xbian?

THX

[deHakkelaar]

I believe if I have the story correct, at the time both Upstart and systemd were strong upcoming init systems to replace the aging system-v.
I believe they chose Upstart over systemd for its smaller footprint.
Am not 100% sure bout this as I wasnt around/involved when they decided