add systemd service

[Deuchnord]

Hello, thanks for this incredible project!

As a regular user, I'd like UxPlay to start automatically as soon as I open my session, and I didn't want to keep a terminal open. Here I propose a minimal systemd service that allows to start UxPlay as a daemon.

This way, we can start uxplay with systemctl start --user uxplay. If we want to make it start at login, systemctl enable --user uxplay will do it.

Hope this will help!

[fduncanh]

Thanks!

We will check this out, maybe next week.
There was already some discussion, see #80 and #269

[SaadBazaz]

This would be cool, even if as an example

[fduncanh]

please experiment with this, and report on if it works well!

[SaadBazaz]

I ran:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/uxplay.service

Pasted the following in it:

[Unit]
Description=AirPlay Unix mirroring server
Requires=avahi-daemon
After=avahi-daemon

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=uxplay -o -fs -nofreeze -hls
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

But this crashes when trying to connect:

journalctl -u uxplay.service
Feb 06 11:14:07 shahbaz systemd[1]: Started uxplay.service - AirPlay Unix mirroring server.
Feb 06 11:14:09 shahbaz uxplay[6776]: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
Feb 06 11:14:23 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
Feb 06 11:14:23 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Feb 06 11:14:23 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Feb 06 11:14:23 shahbaz systemd[1]: Started uxplay.service - AirPlay Unix mirroring server.
Feb 06 11:14:24 shahbaz uxplay[6915]: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
Feb 06 11:14:45 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
Feb 06 11:14:45 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Feb 06 11:14:45 shahbaz systemd[1]: uxplay.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Feb 06 11:14:45 shahbaz systemd[1]: Started uxplay.service - AirPlay Unix mirroring server.
Feb 06 11:14:46 shahbaz uxplay[7127]: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.

Side note: It works fine if I run the command directly on the Terminal.

[fduncanh]

XDG_RUNTIME_ERROR is an X11 X-windows error
take a look at the earlier attempts #80 and #269 to see if you can figure anything out.