EventGhost

jonib wrote:So in VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails you need to add [{{eg.event.payload['item']['id']}},['file']]

Cool and thank you. Awesome!! It works great!

I would never have guessed how to get the filename/path without having it handed to me. I'm glad you're planning to make it easier.

Doug

Hi,

jonib wrote: For the rest I will need to see your EventGhost config.
jonib

Thanks,
Doug

Hi, Joni.
Just got some new IR lights and am going to try some on/off/dimming with JSON. Basic events (OnPlay, OnPause, OnStop) are working for me. However, I tried to get filename/path information with JSONRPC: VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails and GetCurrentlyPlayingFilename and received the two errors ...

Hopefully you found your solution in the last two months. If not...
see the last post in max's thread:
http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... f=2&t=2011

In short:
Main.OnClose - fires when EG is closed.
Main.OnEndSession - fires when the OS shuts down.

Hi,
It turns out all I needed to do was wait long enough for the window to appear. My script was being aborted because the windows wasn't there...yet. It now works.

mickelin, you're probably the same mickelin as on the MP forum for the EventTrigger plugin so you'll probably get all this. I'm having ...

Thanks! I can see how some programs would be picky...toolbars, workspaces, etc are all windows. I tried emulating a Keystroke by sending {Space}, but it doesn't do anything. Is there a better way to send a keystroke?

Thanks again!

Hi,

Is there some way to send a "space" to a background program without bringing it to the front?

Thanks,
Doug

Well, I guess nobody has any easy solutions...I guess I'll rip the USB IR receiver apart and re-purpose the components into a WinLIRC serial receiver which I've had past success with.

Hi,
I've got a generic USB IR device I'm trying to use with MediaPortal. I tried using the Generic HID plugin (and mapping the multiple occurrences of the IR device), but it misses several of the remote buttons that simply seem to be registering as key presses (e.g., number keys, pgup, pgdn, etc ...