Mythdroid with Mythbuntu 11.04 trunk

[Bradley Ford]

Hi,

I am running Mythbuntu 11.04 with the daily trunk builds of Mythtv. I have just installed Mythdroid and my Acer A500 tablet.

My system is a combined backend/frontend with LCD and remote control enabled.

I can get the normal remote control commands to work correctly but I am currently not seeing any of the other data that comes via MDD.

- I have installed as per the instructions with not errors shown up

- Perl is installed on my Mythbuntu machine; but I am not sure if Mythbuntu comes with Myth perl bindings. (But I assume so based on some of the automation they are doing)

- I cannot see /etc/mdd.conf

- /tmp/mdd.log is empty

I do know that their have been some significant changes to Mythtv in trunk for 3rd party interfaces.(Replacement of mythtvosd with MythMessage, new HTTP controls, significant rewrite of MythXML)

Thanks

Brad

Any thoughts?

[foo bar]

Hi Brad,

On 17 June 2011 23:30, Bradley Ford <wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Mythbuntu 11.04 with the daily trunk builds of Mythtv. I have
> just installed Mythdroid and my Acer A500 tablet.

Which version of MythDroid and which version of MDD?

> I can get the normal remote control commands to work correctly but I am
> currently not seeing any of the other data that comes via MDD.
> - I have installed as per the instructions with not errors shown up
> - Perl is installed on my Mythbuntu machine; but I am not sure if Mythbuntu
> comes with Myth perl bindings. (But I assume so based on some of the
> automation they are doing)

MDD wouldn't run (even to install) if the perl bindings were missing,
so let's assume it's not that...

> - I cannot see /etc/mdd.conf

/etc/mdd.conf is only installed in the trunk version of MDD.

> - /tmp/mdd.log is empty

/tmp/mdd.log will only contain data if debug mode is on or errors occur..

> I do know that their have been some significant changes to Mythtv in trunk
> for 3rd party interfaces.(Replacement of mythtvosd with MythMessage, new
> HTTP controls, significant rewrite of MythXML)

Yep, and we do not account for those changes in MythDroid yet.
However, MDD should be mostly, if not totally, unaffected.

Some things you can check:

'file /usr/bin/mythlcdserver' should tell you that it's a perl script
'file /usr/bin/mythlcd' should tell you that it's an ELF binary
'ps aux | grep mythlcdserver' - is MDD running?
'telnet <hostname> 16546' should connect successfully and (probably)
print some stuff

Then we can check if MythDroid can connect by trying to use, for
example, the Videos component of MythDroid..

Still stuck? Turn on debugging..

'killall mythlcdserver'
'mythlcdserver -v none --debug'

Now you should get some data in /tmp/mdd.log.

Finally, check for MDD related lines in MythDroid's debug output
either via adb / logcat from the SDK or by installing a log viewing
program on your device.

Regards,

foobum