[SOLVED]Start something at boot

Hi there!

I'm trying to launch spotify-connect at boot. I'm posting here because it's not a problem with the addon. I want to launch this :

/storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/spotify-connect-web --username MYUSER --password MYPW --bitrate 320 --name MYSERVER -o default:CARD=ALSA

From the command line, this is working perfectly. So I tried various method (I'm not a beginner with linux systems)

1. The autostart.sh method

I first tried with /storage/.configautostart.sh (I made it runnable with "chmod +x"

#!/bin/bash
(
 /storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/spotify-connect-web --username MYUSER --password MYPW --bitrate 320 --name MYSERVER -o default:CARD=ALSA
) &

Not working; it's not the command, because even a simple

echo "test" > /storage/.kodi/test.txt

is not working either. Seems libreelec don't care about autostart.sh.

2. The systemctl service

/storage/.config/system.d/spotify-connect.service

[Unit]
Description=Spotify Connect
After=network.target


[Service]
ExecStart=/storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/spotify-connect-web --username MYUSER --password MYPW --bitrate 320 --name MYSERVER -o default:CARD=ALSA
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
StartLimitInterval=30
StartLimitBurst=20

  
Not working at boot. I tried to use an alternate script in the "ExecStart" line :

ExecStart=/storage/.config/spotify-script.sh

And the spotify-script.sh (runnable) :

#!/bin/bash
cd /storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web
/storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/spotify-connect-web --username MYUSER --password MYPW --bitrate 320 --name MYSERVER -o default:CARD=ALSA

This is working when running "systemctl start spotify-connect", so I tried to enable it at boot with

systemctl enable spotify-connect

but at boot... nothing happens.

3. Crontab

crontab -e

then

@reboot /storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/spotify-connect-web --username MYUSER --password MYPW --bitrate 320 --name MYSERVER -o default:CARD=ALSA

nothing happens.

Aaaand... I have no more ideas. Can someone point me to one of my errors, or have another idea?

TL;DR : I want to start a command at boot but nothin works.

Thank you!

Libreelec 7.0.2.

Thanks for your answer.
You're right about this addon supposed to start automatically; but for some reason, it didn't wanted to read it's settings.xml file, and failed to start.

I got it working just few minutes ago, by running the script (spotify-script.sh in my first post) from autostart.sh.

#!/bin/bash
(
        /storage/.config/spotify-script.sh
) &

Well, if it's work with the script instead of the whole command... Why not.

Quote from vpeter

Script you posted has error

Haha you're right, it was a copy/paste misclick I fixed the 1st message.

Quote from awiouy

What are you trying to do? Set a custom display name? If possible, change LE's hostname.

If not, you can edit /storage/.kodi/addons/service.spotify-connect-web/bin/spotify-connect-web.start and reboot or restart the service with
systemctl restart service.spotify-connect-web

If you tell me what you are trying to do, and it is reasonable, i might fit it into the addon't trying to change the displayname, just

I was just trying to start the service at boot, since the default (built-in) method was not working. It seems that the plugin was not reading the "settings.xml ", but I didn't found why. It was telling he couldn't find the "spotify_appkey.key", despite the file was at the right place(s).

I think I'll remove the plugin and my scripts, and make the whole process again to find out if it's working as supposed.

EDIT @awiouy : I just realized you're the author of this addon. You're doing a great work.