[RELEASE] Wireless Manager (Wicd based) Addon for Linux

tested on Asrock 330 worked fine... but couldnt install from zipp so installed manually and ran it..put in my key and worked first time..thanks very much for this

Quote:tested on Asrock 330 worked fine... but couldnt install from zipp so installed manually and ran it..put in my key and worked first time..thanks very much for this

Thank you for the feedback. When you say you couldnt install from zip, do you mean the actual add-on itself? The installation of wicd worked?

Hi.. when i followed your instructions for the plugin and installed it from zip and then i opened the script and pressed install but the install of the wireless Deb failed so i uninstalled the addon ..ftp'ed the script folder over unzipped and installed the addon again...opened and pressed install ..it installed this time and refreshed found my network and password in and done.

Quote:Hi.. when i followed your instructions for the plugin and installed it from zip and then i opened the script and pressed install but the install of the wireless Deb failed so i uninstalled the addon ..ftp'ed the script folder over unzipped and installed the addon again...opened and pressed install ..it installed this time and refreshed found my network and password in and done

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OK, I can only guess that something went wrong the first time. I don't know how the installation procedure would effect the result.

If you still have the log please post it on pastebin.com. (if you have restarted more than once it will be gone, you hace one xbmc.log and one .old log).
I will improve the error handling in future versions.

vikjon0!

Thanks for you plugin. It's really nice and usefull!

Everything works fine except one thing:
It seems that network connection setuping for a long time during system startup (on Live). And XBMC tries to retreive weather forecast and RSS feed before wifi connection established, so this attempt failing. And XBMC makes next attempt only after 15 minutes.

Can you suggest anything how to fix this?
May be change priority of wicd demon start \ make XBMC wait before connection is established or smth else.

Thanks

Quote:May be change priority of wicd demon start \ make XBMC wait before connection is established or smth else.

Hello! I dont have that problem myself but it is very common. The simple solution seem to be to add a delay in runXBMC. I am not sure it is a good idea that my add-on do that automaticaly. Perhaps there is a better way but for the moment I dont know it.

I will find the link to the fix and post in a few minutes.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=657598&postcount=8

To ínsert a delay in xbmc startup

Quote:sudo nano /usr/bin/runXBMC

insert

Quote:sleep 10

In the beginning (after comments, before first if)

CTRL-o to save
CTRL-x to exit

I suggest that you experiement with the lenght of the delay.
It would of course be possible to make it loop until net is up, or max 30s.

vikjon0 Wrote:http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=657598&postcount=8

To ínsert a delay in xbmc startup



insert

In the beginning (after comments, before first if)

CTRL-o to save
CTRL-x to exit

I suggest that you experiement with the lenght of the delay.
It would of course be possible to make it loop until net is up, or max 30s.

Very nice!!!
Do you know if you can insert a delay in automatic "update library in startup" feature?
Several users complains in this forum that the auto library update starts too early, before the network interface is up and/or mount all devices, but I've never found a solution.
A 30s delay for this will solve a lot of issues....

Thanks in advance.

Quote:Do you know if you can insert a delay in automatic "update library in startup" feature?

If you add a delay in xbmc startup it will also delay the auto update relative to the network startup. Depending on how you mount I have no clue, but you should probably mount in fstab not in xbmc and the same delay should be fine.

vikjon0 Wrote:http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=657598&postcount=8

To ínsert a delay in xbmc startup



insert

In the beginning (after comments, before first if)

CTRL-o to save
CTRL-x to exit

I suggest that you experiement with the lenght of the delay.
It would of course be possible to make it loop until net is up, or max 30s.

I havent played with or looked at your script but if indeed it uses wicd-curses there is a better solution that eliminates the guess work for the delay.



This makes use of the auto run script function in wicd.
XBMC will not start untill there is an active connection.

This will work for anyone using XBMC live and has wicd-curses installed and setup.