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by skematik
Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:08 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: Help with writing a plugin
Replies: 10
Views: 1923

Re: Help with writing a plugin

I'm using the payload as a way to group commands into one macro name then route them to various sources

main.room1 (up)
main.room1 (down)
main.room1 (left)
main.room1 (right)

a macro captures main.room1

then my plugin renames the event and appends the payload and triggers a new event

main ...
by skematik
Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:21 am
Forum: General Support
Topic: Help with writing a plugin
Replies: 10
Views: 1923

Re: Help with writing a plugin

Hi JinxDone, the patch you sent me works great with a simple plugin that I'm experimenting with. Next for me is to rewrite everything and put a few more features into the plugin.

I'm wondering though, do you plan to include the patch in the next release of eventghost or should I look into making ...
by skematik
Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:58 am
Forum: General Support
Topic: Help with writing a plugin
Replies: 10
Views: 1923

Re: Help with writing a plugin

Hey Thanks for the file attachment ... that is just what was looking for but I seem to be getting some errors ... I'm running 0.3.7 r1194 and I've attached a config file.

I'd be happy to post in the other section. Do I need to start a new thread?

This error when a sequence clear action occurs ...
by skematik
Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:36 am
Forum: General Support
Topic: Help with writing a plugin
Replies: 10
Views: 1923

Re: Help with writing a plugin

Thanks very much, that worked!

I'd like to ask you another question in the hopes that you can get me going in the right direction ... how can I modify the Event Ghost: Trigger Event action to add a field where i could specify a text string to be inserted into the payload of the triggered event ...
by skematik
Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:23 am
Forum: General Support
Topic: Help with writing a plugin
Replies: 10
Views: 1923

Help with writing a plugin

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to read the string of the last triggered event from within a plugin. I'm new to python but I've been using EventGhost for about a year to operate my home theater system.

I've been poking around in EventGhostEvent.py and I can see that the event string is there by ...