made a addon wait for external disk

I am surprised to see a backslash in the mount service name.
You can check for the exact service name with the systemctl command.

Incidentally, what flavour of service.transmission add-on are you using?
The one provided by Thoradia allows to define a custom initialization script in /storage/.kodi/addons/service.transmission/init.sh.
This script is called each time service.transmission is started.
You can use this script to delay startup, mount a volume, start a (mount) service, etc.

Quote from CGarces

Hi.

I have instaled LibreElec on a NAND unit and I have a side effect comparing to my previous instalation on SD card.

It's too fast!

I need to wait unit my external unit is mounted.

I see it mounted at /var/media/sda-usb-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0

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LibreELEC:~/.kodi/addons/service.transmission/system.d # systemctl list-units | grep -i toshiba
var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount                                                                            loaded active mounted   /var/media/sda-usb-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0

I have tried this.

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[Unit]
After=network-online.target
Requires=network-online.target
After=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount
Requires=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount

But not is working, looks like not wait for the unit.

I have made a workaround putting a "sleep 5s" inside the sh that launch the addon, but I prefer the systemd approach.

Why is not working?

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I had the exact same problem, solved it by forcing a spin up of the external drive before kodi started. I'm not by my Kodi box right now but I will past the command you need shortly.

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I simply use the following command in the autostart.sh:-

/bin/dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null count=512

This forces the external drive to spin up before kodi starts thus ensuring it's available to all services.

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Quote from CGarces

Hi thoradia

After using my own compilation I have recently moved to your repository. I'm using the version 7.

This is the result of
# systemctl list-units | grep -i toshiba

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var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount                                                                            loaded active mounted   /var/media/sda-usb-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0

If I add udevil-mount@-dev-sda.service the addon looks like start after the unit are mounted, I not see anymore the "Error: No data found", but all my files are in paused status. I don't know why.

This is my current configuration

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[Unit]
Description=transmission
After=network-online.target udevil-mount@-dev-sda.service
Requires=network-online.target udevil-mount@-dev-sda.service
#After=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount
#Requires=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount

BTW I not see the init.sh

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LibreELEC:~/.kodi/addons/service.transmission # ls -l
total 40
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           733 Dec 18 19:05 addon.xml
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Dec 18 19:05 bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           194 Dec 18 19:05 changelog.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           353 Dec 18 19:05 default.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          4756 Dec 18 19:05 icon.png
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Dec 18 19:05 resources
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           572 Dec 18 19:05 settings-default.xml
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Dec 18 19:05 system.d
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          4096 Dec 18 19:05 web

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I have modified bin/transmission.start

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You have to create init.sh yourself, and populate it with commands appropriate to your requirements.
With system.d, good (sleep 5, mount, etc) sometimes beats best (requires, after)