Start UxPlay as a service?

[C0rupted]

I am making a TV box using an RPi 4 that I have got.

I've managed to figure out the right parameters to get UxPlay working, but I have been trying to figure out how to run UxPlay as a service, so it runs at start up with the arguments I give it.

Also, I have made it so Kodi starts up at boot, as soon as the desktop and required dependencies load. I was thinking, would there be a way to modify UxPlay to make it so that it stops Kodi before establishing the connection? To start Kodi, I have used the autostart menu in XFCE.

BTW, I am running TwisterOS. (Based off Raspbian Buster 32-bit) Any help is appreciated.

[qrkourier]

You can manage processes on Debian Buster with systemd. You need a service unit definition file that describes the process and its environment in the right directory, then you can do systemctl daemon-reload to load that configuration. Then you can use the standard systemctl commands to control the process, and journalctl to view the log emissions to the journal.

[fduncanh]

seems that there is nothing more to say?

[monomycelium]

@ShadityZ, can I take a look at your service file? I'm wondering how you set the environment.

[MynockSpit]

Big 'ol necro here, but on the off chance that people still want this, this is what my service looks like:

[Unit]
Description=Airplay Server/Reciever for Mac/Windows/PC
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
ExecStart=uxplay -n Raspi -nh"" -fs
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

A couple of notes:

• This is on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspian (Bookworm).
• I had luck installing it for a specific user, which means adding it to ~/.config/systemd/user/ (e.g. ~/.config/systemd/user/uxplay.service) and using the --user flag when enabling (e.g. systemctl --user enable uxplay). I haven't tested installing it globally.
• I'm using default.target because nothing else seemed to work. On my raspi 5, default.target maps to graphical.target.

  nathaniel@raspberrypi valley [main] $ systemctl --user get-default
  default.target
  nathaniel@raspberrypi valley [main] $ systemctl get-default
  graphical.target

EDIT: Added environment variable. 🤦🏽