[SOLVED] Script for long button push

[timmo11]

timmo11

3. Juli 2015 at 8:26 #15099

Hi

First of all – I think that Max2play is extremely good. It basically solves lots and lots of problems in one box.

I’m running on an odroid U3

I would like to write a small script to be called when the button is pushed for a long time.
There is a place to set this up in the „Odroid Advanced Features“ tab.

The script only has to do one thing – get the LMS to rescan the library.

I wrote a trival shell script to do this called rescan and put it in /root which just contains the lines

#!/bin/bash
echo -e „rescan\nexit\n“ | nc localhost 9090 > /dev/null
exit 0

and that works just fine from the linux command line
but adding it as $HOME/rescan as the script to call in U3 advanced settings when the button is pushed doesn’t seem to work

so I am calling it the wrong way, or do I need to wrap it up into some other kind script package?

[flysurfer Moderator]

flysurfer Moderator

3. Juli 2015 at 9:31 #15101

Hi timmo11,

if the complete path of the executable file is „/root/rescan“, than it should work by pasting this into the „Start my own Script“.

You might try to debug, if something is not working as expected: add some logging to the command in the webinterface to see what the command-line output is. In your case you might try this for the „Start my own Script“:

/root/rescan 2>&1 > /tmp/rescan-output

After pushing the button, there should be a file with the output of your script – to open it use „cat /tmp/rescan-output“

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by flysurfer.

[timmo11]

timmo11

4. Juli 2015 at 12:34 #15103

hi fly

thanks so much
that did the trick

now my workmates can bring their own music on a USB stick, press the button and off we go!

thanks again

TIm