Restarting mm-control manually

An application can restart mm-control with an explicit command if the service has unexpectedly stopped and if the application can't continue without support for media operations.

The exact conditions that require a client application to restart mm-control are:

To restart mm-control manually, your application must:
  1. Confirm that mm-control isn't already running by checking the list of active processes with the pidin or ps command.
  2. Confirm that the pps, io-audio_mcbsp, audioman, mm-renderer, and mm-trkmgr processes are already running by checking the same list of active processes.
    The mm-control process depends on all five of these other services, so if any one is not running, that service must be started; otherwise, mm-control won't run properly.
  3. Send the command line for running mm-control with the desired command options to the OS, using the system() or spawn() system call.
    The OS tries to run mm-control and reports the operation outcome to sloginfo.

    For details on the system calls that send commands to the OS, see the system() or spawn() section in the C Library Reference. For the full list of command-line options, see the mm-control command line section.
If sloginfo shows no error, mm-control is running again, so your application can resume sending PPS commands to the service to perform media operations.
Your car infotainment system should run only one instance of mm-control, so separate media applications must coordinate with each other to avoid redundantly starting mm-control.