How would one approach in tackling this problem?

[thejipster]

I have a Context folder created with macros that send IR signals via the USB-UIRT called "Remote". Within it I have created Event names called "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", etc... "a", "b", "c", etc...

I have played around w/ the HTTP plugin (listening on port 88) and figured out how to change to this context folder.

I would like to send a single line command to have it call various macros in this context.
http://serverIP:88/index.html?1255ab

This would generate event "1", event "2", event "5" , event "5", event "a", event "b".

One way I was thinking is to use another webserver to take in this 1255ab string and print out individual http links that I can click on, such as
http://serverIP:88/index.html?1
http://serverIP:88/index.html?2
http://serverip:88/indext.html?5
etc..

But I was hoping the creative community here can shed some light on how this may be achieved more gracefully

Thanks
- J

[Bitmonster]

Use an URL like this:
http://serverIP:88/index.html?MultiEvent&1&2&5&5&a&b

Make a macro for the "Webserver.MultiEvent" event with this PythonScript:

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for eventstring in event.payload:
    eg.TriggerEvent(eventstring)

[thejipster]

Thanks for the hint on this.

I ended up doing something like this. I am beginning to like Python. Seems like it can do most things Perl can. The next thing to do is learn the libraries that exist out there. Don't laugh at my spagetti code. I only spent like 10 minutes of reading Python and 10 minutes hacking this together.

# Usage from Webserver plugin
# The two parameters passed must be 32 characters long.
#http://192.168.2.150:88/index.html?NewC ... 7890123456

# defining a simple function
def Send(codeSegment):
# need to add in some sanity check to ensure that the code is 32 chars long before looping.
for button in range(0, 15):
# need to put delay here.
eg.TriggerEvent(codeSegment[button])
eg.TriggerEvent("Down")

for button in range(16, 31):
eg.TriggerEvent(codeSegment[button])
eg.TriggerEvent("Ok")
eg.TriggerEvent("Wait5")
# end of Send function

##
## begin main section
##
eg.TriggerEvent("UsePansat") #use Pansat context
eg.TriggerEvent("SuperExit") #Exit to the TV channel first
eg.TriggerEvent("GoToNagra2") #get into Nagra menu

newCode1 = eg.event.payload[0]
newCode2 = eg.event.payload[1]

Send(newCode1)
eg.TriggerEvent("Up")
eg.TriggerEvent("Up")
eg.TriggerEvent("Right")
eg.TriggerEvent("Down")

Send(newCode2)
eg.TriggerEvent("SuperExit")

For those who maybe wonderin, this is a simple script used to send in the new Dish codes to the Pansat 2500a receiver since the autoroll is no longer working.

- J