EventGhost

I have a logitech Revue and I agree with you, the keyboard is very nice.

It is a normal logitech "unifying" device, so if you get a logitech unifying receiver (a usb dongle, available for less than $10 from amazon and other electronics retailers) it should work great with a Windows machine.

It ...

I just got a Logitech Revue Keyboard today and it is almost the perfect HTPC keyboard. There are a few buttons on it that don't work though (obviously for the Revue) that would be really nice to have on my HTPC. Specifically the 3 buttons along the top for AVR, STB, and TV power functions.

Has ...

I tried doing something similar to this. I use bittorrent instead of news groups, but I still had to figure out how to unrar, rename, organize, download artwork, and update XBMC.

I ended up using SortTV. Its a Perl script that will unrar, archive, download artwork, and update XBMC. I did have a ...

This looks very close to what I am looking for.

I currently have a "Downloads" folder that has "New Movies", "New Shows", etc. Inside those folders I have video files and subfolders with RARs or video files. I made a script in VBScript to automatically copy any new video files and unrar any new ...

I suppose I could create a macro with a XBMC stop event, then set a delay of 10 minutes before sending the power off IR command. Then if any other events are triggered either cancel or restart the timer.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

I use WMC7 and XBMC and EG... I use EG as the "hub" and launch events based on what is running on the screen, what EG logs, and IR commands coming in... it works very well.

Yes, but do you have a way to turn off the TV automatically when no videos are playing? I have a plasma TV and want to ...

I ended up going back to Media Center for other reasons. If anybody is able to capture screensaver events in either Media Center or XBMC I would switch to that HTPC front end.

Let me know if anybody finds a solution to this? Maybe a series of timers in conjunction with system idle?

So I am trying to make the transition from MC7 to XBMC. Is there a way to find out when the XBMC screensaver is activated?

Is there any way to get the screensaver even? I want to turn off my TV when the screensaver is enabled and turn the TV on when the screensaver stops.

Thanks.

Pako -

This ended up working perfectly. Thanks!

Now I just need to see if it will work while I am in Media Center. I don't remember the name of the screensaver it runs.

Thanks again!

I get only this (timeout = 1 min; OS = Windows 7): 13:49:36 System.Idle
13:49:57 Task.Deactivated.pn
13:49:57 Task.Activated.Desktop
13:52:02 System.UnIdle
13:52:02 Task.Deactivated.Desktop
13:52:02 Task.Activated.pn Pako


Bah, you posted when I was composing that last post.

I'm pretty sure ...

This didn't work for me because when the screensaver was activated the dekstop event would fire. This means if the screensaver came on, the TV would turn off, but also if I minimized MCE the TV would also turn off. I got these events when the screensaver activated Task.Created.scrnsave , Task ...

The "Task Create/Switch Events" plugin generates several events on my WinXP when the screensaver is activated.

This didn't work for me because when the screensaver was activated the dekstop event would fire. This means if the screensaver came on, the TV would turn off, but also if I minimized MCE ...

Hello,

I am trying to turn off my TV when the screensaver is activated and turn on the TV when the screensaver is deactivated.

I have the TV on/off functions working, but I can't find the event for the screensaver. What can I use to accomplish this?

Thank you,

Ryan