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Mentalblaze
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Mentalblaze

I have installed the Emby server on a Raspberry Pi 4 using R pi OS x64 (debian Bullseye).
Then I realized that I wanted to use it as a client too (is that too much for it??) so I installed Emby Theater.

But, as stated in the instructions, I need to start it from Applications. But I do not have mouse or keyboard connected to it, only a CEC remote. 
So I need to add it to Autostart. 

Found a guide that said  should add a file in pi/.config/autostart.

So I followed the guide and created a file with this:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Emby Theater
Exec=sh -c '/usr/bin/emby-theater.sh'
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

The exec part is a plain guess, and it does not work. 
Am I on the right track and just need to configure the 'Exec=' part?
Or is this totally wrong and I need to do something completly different?

 

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Hi, yes we've recently reworked our Theater packages and we'll need to update the autostart instructions, so stay tuned for that.

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alucryd

Hi there, can you try to create the file `~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart` with the following content:

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@emby-theater

This should launch an LXDE session with just emby-theater.

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Mentalblaze

I had problems getting the audio to work on Bullseye. 

And I read that a lot of people had this problem with that version and that Buster was a lot better. 
So after a couple of days of trying to fix it I gave up and installed Buster instead. 

But that means that I need this command in Buster instead...

"LXsession" is not present in this distro. But lxpanel is. 
So I added ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/autostart with the same settings as above. 

But that failed.

So I hope that @alucryd know whats wrong... 

(I keep it as "solved", as it was the solution for the version stated in the first post)

 

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Mentalblaze

That was easy.

Just create the folder structure and file `~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart` and it works. 
 

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