made a addon wait for external disk

    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

    Code
    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.


    Code
    [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?

    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.


    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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    Quote from thoradia


    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.

    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

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


    If I add [email protected] 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

    Code
    [Unit]
Description=transmission
After=network-online.target [email protected]
Requires=network-online.target [email protected]
#After=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount
#Requires=var-media-sda\x2dusb\x2dTOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0.mount

    BTW I not see the init.sh



    I have modified bin/transmission.start

    Edited once, last by CGarces (January 7, 2017 at 12:12 PM).

    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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    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) ;)