Support for XBMC2 plugin (formerly XBMCRepeat)

[jonib]

I find your pluggin really useful.

I tested some JSOn commands and it works pretty well. But I have a question, how can we use the result (return) of the commands?

Oops , I was supposed to post some examples how to use the results.

So for example with Player.GetActivePlayer you get this in the log: which is the json fomated output

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Result:
{
  "audio": false, 
  "picture": false, 
  "video": true
}

And if you use the normal way to show a result ({eg.result}) in for example ShowOSD you get this: which is of Python Dict format

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{u'picture': False, u'audio': False, u'video': True}

So if you want to get the video player status use {eg.result['video']}

I'll post some other examples later(hopefully I remember ). Just ask if you need more.

jonib

[supertusse]

Hello!

Been playing with the new beta. Seems it isn't too Windows 7 friendly:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\XBMCRepeat\__init__.py", line 686, in OnUpdate
UpdateCommands()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\XBMCRepeat\__init__.py", line 745, in UpdateCommands
with open(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.split(__file__)[0]), 'httpapi.dat'), 'wb') as f:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EventGhost\\plugins\\XBMCRepeat\\httpapi.dat'

I suppose you should store the dats in the application data folder instead?

-Tusse

[jonib]

Cool, some feedback

I suppose you should store the dats in the application data folder instead?

Jupp, I hadn't tested in Win7 (partly why it's not an official release), I will probably need to store the dats in Application data directory. Thanks for testing and reporting.

Hopefully soon I'll make a new release.(win7 friendly)

jonib

[supertusse]

Heh, that was quick

I solved the above by copying the .dat files from a computer running XP, btw. But that's not really a fix

I have a couple more questions for you.

Is it possible to call your plugin from a PythonScript action? I would like to use your plugin for communication with xbmc (speficially, ExecBuiltIn via the httpapi action I suppose), but currently I'm stuck doing it myself inside the script action. Which is a bit messy imo, when there's a plugin for this stuff

Also, how can I use values from eg.globals.* ? E.g, I tried passing a variable to the SendNotification action, but that only caused the variable name to show up in the notification, not the value

[jonib]

I solved the above by copying the .dat files from a computer running XP, btw. But that's not really a fix

Glad you found a workaround.

Is it possible to call your plugin from a PythonScript action?

Seems your in luck. I did a quick test with a Python Command action using these commands

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eg.plugins.XBMC.plugin.HTTP_API.send(method='Pause', params='')
eg.plugins.XBMC.plugin.JSON_RPC.send(method='VideoPlayer.PlayPause', params='')

Hopefully you can figure out how to use other methods, if not, ask.
I have not run any plugin methods from code so don't know if this is the right way, but seems to work.

Also, how can I use values from eg.globals.* ? E.g, I tried passing a variable to the SendNotification action, but that only caused the variable name to show up in the notification, not the value

Just putting the variable name(or Python code) between curly braces should work.

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{eg.globals.myglobalvariablename}

jonib

[supertusse]

Thanks - I'll try this.

However, I have two xbmc's to control, so there are two XBMCRepeat instances in my tree. How do I control which one is called? I'll have to experiment

Edit: spleling

[jonib]

However, I have two xbmc's to control, so there are two XBMCRepeat instances in my tree. How do I control which one is called? I'll have to experiment

The first one should be called XBMC, and the second one should be XBMC1 or XBMC2, for me it's XBMC2.

To find out you can copy a XBMC action from your EventGhost config and paste it in Notepad, then you should see what the plugin is named internally.

jonib

[supertusse]

Thanks! That helped a lot. I will post more later, but in case anyone else would like a working example of how you can access these plugins from code, I'll do a little snippet.

Short explanation:

Prior to this script I have another script that picks up fresh episode downloads and moves them into the right place in my tv library + writes a small log file with some details about this process. Then there's this script here below, that is started by a directory watcher when a new .log file is created. The purpose of the script is to start XBMC library updates for the show that just got a new episode + send a popup notification to the xbmc, so it will show on screen that there is a new episode available. I have (at the moment) two xbmc's to update, and wanted it to be easy to extend to more xbmcs in the future.

The 'trick' is how to associate an XBMCRepeater instance with a certain xbmc, which is done by storing a reference to the httpapi function for each xbmc instance in a dictionary, as shown below. When I add more xbmc's, I just add another entry in the xbmcs dict.

I'm just starting to get a hang of this Python thing, so any suggestions for improvements are most welcome

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import sys
import os
import re

FileName = ''.join(eg.event.payload)
BaseName = ''.join(os.path.basename(FileName))

#Ignore files not ending with .log and files starting with _
if BaseName[-4:] != '.log' or BaseName[0] == '_':
    sys.exit()

# Reference to XBMCRepeater plugins linked to the xbmc's you want to update and notify + path to tv series in XBMC's library
xbmcs = {'Kontoret' : {'function' : eg.plugins.XBMC2.HTTPAPI, 'libpath' : 'Z:\\Video\\TV\\Series\\'},
         'Stuegris' : {'function' : eg.plugins.XBMC3.HTTPAPI, 'libpath' : 'Z:\\Video\\TV\\Series\\'}    }

LogContents = []
LogDict = {}

LogFile = open(FileName, 'r')

for LogLine in LogFile:
    LogContents.append(LogLine)
    
    LineTuple = LogLine.split(':',1)
    if LineTuple[0] <> '':
        LogDict[LineTuple[0].lstrip().rstrip()] = LineTuple[1].lstrip().rstrip()
    
LogFile.close()

for xbmc in xbmcs:

    ScanPath = xbmcs[xbmc]['libpath'] + LogDict['Series name'] + '\\'
    NotificationMsg = 'New Episode' + ',' + '{0} {1}x{2}'.format(LogDict['Series name'], LogDict['Season number'],LogDict['Episode number'])

    try:
        xbmcs[xbmc]['function']('ExecBuiltin', 'XBMC.updatelibrary(video, %s)' % (ScanPath), 5, False)
        xbmcs[xbmc]['function']('ExecBuiltin', 'Notification(%s)' % (NotificationMsg), 5, False)
    except Exception:
        sys.exc_clear()

Now, one more question: What is the "5" for, in the HTTPAPI function call? I glanced at the source code for the plugin, and can see that the parameter is called 'category', but it doesn't seem to be used for anything inside the actual function?

-Tusse

Edit: Added try/except around HTTPAPI calls, to prevent the script from exiting if one of the xbmc's are turnet off.

[jonib]

Short explanation:

Cool, I really need to do something like this, now the only partly automatic in my system is using TVRename to rename any TV episodes and move them to where I want them.

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I'll check this out later.

Now, one more question: What is the "5" for, in the HTTPAPI function call?

It's just used to show the right category in the HTTPAPIs configure dialog, and not used for anything else. So you don't need to use it in your code.

jonib

[jonib]

I still have a small issue with OSD video and music.
I want to display with the same remote button the OSD video or music in full screen mode.

When playing music, pushing the guide button gives me the right OSD music window.
But when playing video, pushing the guide button gives me both OSD music and OSD video. I have to exit twice to remove OSD windows.

It seems to be a contextual issue with OSD music.

Only the actions in XBMCRepeat\Buttons folder is context based, so for the OSD you need to use Remote\Menu macro.

jonib

[viald]

Only the actions in XBMCRepeat\Buttons folder is context based, so for the OSD you need to use Remote\Menu macro.jonib

Sorry Jonib, I don't understand what you mean.And I don't understand what exactly are the action commands for remote and gamepad.

[kricker]

I think he means this:


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[viald]

I think he means this:


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Yes I know where are the action commands, but I don't understand how to use them in such case.

[kricker]

Look in your \XBMC\system\keymaps folder. Each of these keymaps specify what to do when a button is pressed, either keyboard, remote, joystick etc. There is a section in each xml file for each XBMC screen or OSD. These specify what to do on that OSD or screen when a certain button is pressed. In order to use these context sensitive type button presses you need to use either remote or gamepad inputs from jonibs plugin. Most of the other actions are direct commands and are not context sensitive.

[viald]

Understood !
Thank you Kricker. Now my setting is full functional.