Delayed start of addons

Kodi Tvheadend
#1

Hello,

I have a problem with tvheadend not seeing the recordings.
I have the system booting from SD-Card, the recordings are on a USB HDD.

I suppose the mounting of the volume happens after tvheadend is started.
I was able to solve this issue by setting a Delay of 10s in Tvheadend Addon-Settings.

Now the next problem is that I have to restart the Tvheadend HTSP Client
I can’t find an option for startup delay.
Is there another way to get this working?

Regards
Andy

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#2

You can set a delay in coreelec-network settings.
/edit: i see you already set a value.This makes kodi start after network becomes active and should fix it. Try to increase the number of seconds kodi should wait for network.

#3

You can try creating file /storage/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py and if doesn’t work try changing first sleep time.

import xbmc
import time

time.sleep(10)

# disable and enable addon
jsonCmd = '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Addons.SetAddonEnabled","params":{"addonid":"pvr.hts","enabled":false}}'
jsonRv = xbmc.executeJSONRPC(jsonCmd)

time.sleep(1)

jsonCmd = '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Addons.SetAddonEnabled","params":{"addonid":"pvr.hts","enabled":true}}'
jsonRv = xbmc.executeJSONRPC(jsonCmd)

You could delay starting kodi until USB disk is mounted with some loop in autostart.sh file. Then pvr client doesn’t need to be restarted.

Delay start of addons
#4

Thanks, this made it work!

If network delay wasn’t successful, I’d have tried editing
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kodi-autostart.service.
This line

ConditionPathExists=/storage/.config/autostart.sh

be used to wait for a USB storage, like

ConditionPathExists=/var/media/USBHDD/recordings

Unfortunately the file can’t be saved:

[ File ‘/usr/lib/systemd/system/kodi-autostart.service’ is unwritable ]

The best solution would be to just make the addons wait for the storage.
Anybody knows how to do this?

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#5

cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/kodi-autostart.service /storage/.config/system.d
and edit file /storage/.config/system.d/kodi-autostart.service

But I doubt this would work because autostart will be just skipped.

Put this in autostart.sh and it will delay starting kodi until path exist. Or 15 sec max.

cnt=1
while [ $cnt -lt 15 ]; do
  if [ -d /var/media/USBHDD/recordings ]; then
    sleep 2
    break
  fi
  
  let cnt=cnt+1 
  sleep 1
done

Also create folder /storage/.kodi/addons/driver.dvb.delay_mount/bin and create file /storage/.kodi/addons/driver.dvb.delay_mount/bin/userspace-driver.sh with content

cnt=1
while [ $cnt -lt 15 ]; do
  if [ -d /var/media/USBHDD/recordings ]; then
    break
  fi
  
  let cnt=cnt+1 
  sleep 1
done

This will delay starting tvheadend addon until path exist.

One other option would be to restart PVR client from userspace-driver.sh.

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