Action on audio CD insert

[psaffrey]

I've attached an external CD/DVD drive to my (headless) RPi and I want to rip an audio CD (using the excellent abcde) every time one is inserted. Ideally, I'd like to do the same with HandBrake on DVDs, but one step at a time.

I did the standard web bashing and could not find a good recipe for this. There seem to be several competing tools of various ages, including halevt and udev. I can't make much sense of the documentation for either and I also find worrying signs of hacky workarounds for basic missing functionality, see the constantly-polling Perl script on this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-778250.html

Does anybody know how to use a RPi to launch a shell command on CD insert?

Peter

[DBryant]

I've always thought that udev was current best practice. Not used halevt but have recently played around with udev albeit not on a Raspberry.

Seemed quite straight forward; these URLs were of the most use:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168221

Of particular use is the udevadm tool, referenced in the above links, with command like

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udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyUSB0
udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyUSB0)
udevadm monitor –env
udevadm trigger

The last is useful to emulate the insert of the device. The earlier commands, along with lsusb and the out of /var/log/messages, help to determine the characteristics of the device you are plugging. These are critical to getting the trigger event you require; in my case a USB UART with an XBee module.

I triggered a simply bash script, starting with x+ugo permissions just to get up and running.

Hope this is helpful