2013-12-30, 11:32
This is mainly @margro as I've no idea how to implement this :-)
With the impending release of media portal 1.6 (and so probably a new tvserver plugin) is it possible to add a basic heartbeat / keepalive so that it can be aware when an xbmc client has crashed while watching live TV?
The current behaviour seems to be that it isn't aware the client has died so the tvserver carries on streaming (which basically holds a lock on the tuner).
Even when the client comes back online it doesn't seem to be able to regain ownership of the lock tuner.. The only way to free the device is restart the mepo tvservice or go into the tvserver configuration and use manual control.
Either way isn't really wife/kid friendly ;-)
If the tvserver could notice the client has disconnected and just stop the tuned channel (as long as no other clients are using it) then it would be a great addition.
With the impending release of media portal 1.6 (and so probably a new tvserver plugin) is it possible to add a basic heartbeat / keepalive so that it can be aware when an xbmc client has crashed while watching live TV?
The current behaviour seems to be that it isn't aware the client has died so the tvserver carries on streaming (which basically holds a lock on the tuner).
Even when the client comes back online it doesn't seem to be able to regain ownership of the lock tuner.. The only way to free the device is restart the mepo tvservice or go into the tvserver configuration and use manual control.
Either way isn't really wife/kid friendly ;-)
If the tvserver could notice the client has disconnected and just stop the tuned channel (as long as no other clients are using it) then it would be a great addition.