Media centre issue

[ray._b]

Hi guys. Many thanks for the input here. Just to clarify I am not recording, just playing music (mp3) off the hard drive via media centre. I would say that this happens very often, on the odd occasion it will work fine. It seems the longer the music has been played the more likely it will return "tune fail" upon exiting.
Typical of the English my grasp of other languages is very poor. However on-line translators are usually useful, providing the article is not written technical?

Thanks

Ray

[Mikam_0815]

In order to do a trace and if you do neither have morly's tool nor serial connection you could log into via telnet, then use

killall rcS; killall enigma2

(ensure that no-one is using the box at this stage or no recordings are ongoing, otherwise you risk a divorce )

After that start the software again with

enigma2

After that you get all output to the telnet window (better do a capture of the output as it is quite a lot coming there) and you could repeat your tests and provide the output here. Please remember to reboot the box after tests are done to get it into normal shape.

And about the visible issue: I did not mean that it only happens with recordings but also it could happen there. It can also happen when using standard player to play recorded movies and as you mentioned when either playing music or videos via media center.

[morly]

just a hint:
for a telnet log (so if network of the box is started and you can connect via telnet) you can also execute the following command:

setconsole

The result is the same as using the one above - but: you don't have to kill and restart rcS and enigma2

[Mikam_0815]

Only one command? boring

Can I disable the output as well with a command or will it have no impact to the performance if leaving it on?

[morly]

I currently don't have a box available - but what does

setconsole --help

say?

I have in mind that there is a way - but cannot remember at the moment

[Mikam_0815]

setconsole -r does the magic:

Usage: setconsole [-r] [DEVICE]

Redirect system console output to DEVICE (default: /dev/tty)

-r Reset output to /dev/console

[morly]

I knew it is that easy
By the way - this nice logging feature is part of the new admin tool

[olie]

New admin tool is like Columbo's wife. No one had ever seen her.

[morly]

not correct - I see it almost every day
and also others could already test some parts

[Mikam_0815]

Just for curiosity: is the setconsole something new in the actual releases because in the past we always used to do the restart of enigma2 to get the messages shown in terminal window?