Support for XBMC2 plugin (formerly XBMCRepeat)

[Livin]

I only see the one statement for the "connection"... and you said it was not accurate. So there is no real way to know if it is connected since I'm not getting any other notifications from XBMC

[jonib]

I only see the one statement for the "connection"... and you said it was not accurate. So there is no real way to know if it is connected since I'm not getting any other notifications from XBMC

Before events all actions made a separate connection to XBMC just to send and receive once, even the Broadcast event isn't connected to XBMC.
But when I finish the JSON-RPC notifications then there will be a connection, then there will be notifications when it's connected to or has lost connection.

jonib

[daveotero]

I'm trying to create a macro to open XBMC or if it's already open to activate the window and make sure it's full screen. The only problem it that there's no action I cab find for setting full screen, only toggling between full screen and windowed modes.

Could anyone help with creating this command or writing a script to detect if full screen is currently active? Jonib posted a similar script a few months ago to test if XBMC was minimized but I'm not sure how to change it to suit my purpose.

Thanks for any help!

[coolfire]

Hi all together,
I'm loving Eventghost and the XBMC2 Plugin. But I have one little question. I want to start a dynamic playlist in XBMC with an EventGhost Macro. I hope that is possible.

I already googled a lot, but I couldn't find anything. Can someone explayn me how to handle that or post me a link to a Toturial?

Thanks a lot.

[coolfire]

Hi all together,
I'm loving Eventghost and the XBMC2 Plugin. But I have one little question. I want to start a dynamic playlist in XBMC with an EventGhost Macro. I hope that is possible.

I already googled a lot, but I couldn't find anything. Can someone explayn me how to handle that or post me a link to a Toturial?

Thanks a lot.

[byronl]

Just upgraded to Eden and discovered that when I went to pull up the OSD in fullscreen video I was getting the home screen menu as well as the OSD.

Anyway a bit of digging and it appears that I have the same menu key mapped to XBMC2\Actions\General\PreviousMenu and XBMC2\Actions\Fullscreen Video\OSD.

Obviously in Dharma this was not an issue, but it is now, so I've had to unmap XBMC2\Actions\General\PreviousMenu.

I'm guessing there is nothing to be done as this is obviously a feature of Eden?

Thanks

Byron

[jonib]

Just upgraded to Eden and discovered that when I went to pull up the OSD in fullscreen video I was getting the home screen menu as well as the OSD.

Anyway a bit of digging and it appears that I have the same menu key mapped to XBMC2\Actions\General\PreviousMenu and XBMC2\Actions\Fullscreen Video\OSD.

Obviously in Dharma this was not an issue, but it is now, so I've had to unmap XBMC2\Actions\General\PreviousMenu.

I'm guessing there is nothing to be done as this is obviously a feature of Eden?

I haven't noticed any changes to those actions but I don't use them directly, anyway.

You should not map two or more XBMC actions to one button that is used at the same time, unless you know they are not used in the same place or you want to use all actions at the same time.

I think this XBMC2\Buttons\Remote\Menu should work the way you expect those actions to work. If you are not you should map any actions you need from the XBMC2\Buttons\Remote folder as those work best when using a remote, and complement from XBMC2\Actions any missing actions.

jonib

[Livin]

I have not had any issues... not seen any buttons that are double mapped.

[byronl]

XBMC2\Buttons\Remote\Menu does something different (takes you to the home menu).

It's definitely an Eden change where the 2 actions above are doubled up. Anyway it's not a big issue as I just simply un mapped it!

Thanks

Byron

[jonib]

XBMC2\Buttons\Remote\Menu does something different (takes you to the home menu).

Did you try it?
It will do a OSD command when in fullscreen video and a PreviousMenu command when not watching fullscreen video.
This is defined in the XBMC install dir\system\keymaps\remote.xml maybe you have a modified version?

It's definitely an Eden change where the 2 actions above are doubled up. Anyway it's not a big issue as I just simply un mapped it!

I don't know how you got it to work that way, It should not have worked in Dharma either.

But if it works the way you want it now, I'll accept that.

jonib

[byronl]

Ok worked it out. PreviousMenu doesn't work correctly. Even thought it's setup remotes.xml correctly as you describe it takes you back to the home screen and not the previousmenu as it should (and is defined).

Back works ok. I will raise this on the xbmc forums as they broke something!

Thanks

Byron

[daveotero]

I'm just re-posting looking for help. The original post was my first on this board. It took a few weeks to get through moderation and it think it may have been missed. Sorry for the repeat.

I'm trying to create a macro to open XBMC, or if it's already open to activate the window and make sure it's full screen. The only problem so far is that there's no action I can find for forcing full screen, only toggling between full screen and windowed modes.

Could anyone help with creating this command or writing a script to detect if full screen is currently active? Jonib posted a similar script a few months ago to test if XBMC was minimized but I'm not sure how to change it to suit my purpose.

Thanks!

[blaher]

Is there a correct way to upgrade EG with this plugin? The last couple of times I've upgraded EG, it complains it can't find the XBMC plugin, which means a lot of reprogramming.

Thanks.

[jonib]

Is there a correct way to upgrade EG with this plugin?

This should be a one time deal, close down EventGhost, edit your EventGhost config (the XML file loaded in EG) with Notepad and find the part that references the XBMC2 plugin and change the GUID to {8C8B850C-773F-4583-AAD9-A568262B7933}, after this update to the latest EventGhost and it should work correctly.

More info about the problem here.

jonib

[Livin]

I'm just re-posting looking for help. The original post was my first on this board. It took a few weeks to get through moderation and it think it may have been missed. Sorry for the repeat.

I'm trying to create a macro to open XBMC, or if it's already open to activate the window and make sure it's full screen. The only problem so far is that there's no action I can find for forcing full screen, only toggling between full screen and windowed modes.

Could anyone help with creating this command or writing a script to detect if full screen is currently active? Jonib posted a similar script a few months ago to test if XBMC was minimized but I'm not sure how to change it to suit my purpose.

Thanks!

XBMC has a setting to automatically open Full Screen.

If you need to check using EG then use Find Window + Maximize