Support for XBMC2 plugin (formerly XBMCRepeat)

[Exile82]

Hi. I started using this awesome plugin yesterday, works like a charm. One question though, is it possible to use the plugin with multiple machines by using the IP to differentiate? I only see one option of adding a machine (by IP). If possible, I would like to use it with another Kodi setup.

[jonib]

Hi. I started using this awesome plugin yesterday, works like a charm.

Cool, great.

One question though, is it possible to use the plugin with multiple machines by using the IP to differentiate? I only see one option of adding a machine (by IP). If possible, I would like to use it with another Kodi setup.

Sure, just add the plugin for every Kodi/XBMC you want to control.

jonib

[Exile82]

Hi. I started using this awesome plugin yesterday, works like a charm.

Cool, great.

One question though, is it possible to use the plugin with multiple machines by using the IP to differentiate? I only see one option of adding a machine (by IP). If possible, I would like to use it with another Kodi setup.

Sure, just add the plugin for every Kodi/XBMC you want to control.

jonib

Oh, so I can just add the plugin multiple times? Why didn't I think about that? Thanks.

One more thing. I noticed yesterday that a few times EG did not receive any events from Kodi (Openelec). Is this something that can happen from time to time? I know this issue can be connected to the HTPC and not to EG, I just wanted to know if this is well-known and maybe get a pointer on how to avoid this.

Thanks

[Luca Brasi]

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One more thing. I noticed yesterday that a few times EG did not receive any events from Kodi (Openelec). Is this something that can happen from time to time? I know this issue can be connected to the HTPC and not to EG, I just wanted to know if this is well-known and maybe get a pointer on how to avoid this.

This happens to me as well from time to time. I just came here to ask about it.
I will have to disable and then enable the plugin to get it working again. My gut tells me that it might happen after a couple of resumes/wakes. Can't tell for sure. I will try to disable/enable the plugin on system resume and alternatively on kodi start. Let's see if that helps. Exile82, you might try the same as a workaround for now.

[Exile82]

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One more thing. I noticed yesterday that a few times EG did not receive any events from Kodi (Openelec). Is this something that can happen from time to time? I know this issue can be connected to the HTPC and not to EG, I just wanted to know if this is well-known and maybe get a pointer on how to avoid this.

This happens to me as well from time to time. I just came here to ask about it.
I will have to disable and then enable the plugin to get it working again. My gut tells me that it might happen after a couple of resumes/wakes. Can't tell for sure. I will try to disable/enable the plugin on system resume and alternatively on kodi start. Let's see if that helps. Exile82, you might try the same as a workaround for now.

Yes, that is the exact same scenario. I came home yesterday and started my HTPC, my server with EG had been running the whole day (different machines). When I checked the log, no Kodi events were received by EG. I restarted the server, and I immediately received a notification in Kodi that EG was connected.
It seems that EG stops to listen for events. I have not seen a pattern yet, but I believe it is when my HTPC running Kodi is turned off for a day and then turned on again (could be less).

Thanks for your advice Luca Brasi, really appreciate it! I do not know if that is a solution for me since I am running EG and Kodi on different machines. However, I might have other ways to solve this?! I always pull my motorized projector screen down (433,92 mHz), that could maybe trigger disable/enable the plugin.

I also noticed in the plugin settings that you can increase the number of connection retries (default is 5, 5 seconds apart). I am wondering if you can increase that number to, let say, 17280 retries. That should cover the whole day and night.

Anyways, I hope you can keep me updated about your progress Luca.

Thanks

[jonib]

@Exile82 and @Luca Brasi: What version of the plugin are you using? have you tried the latest here?

It sends a ping command periodically to keep a connection alive, I might need to adjust it to detect non responding connection.

I don't really use the events from Kodi and I don't use any sleep modes so don't really know how they effect the events.

jonib

[jonib]

I also noticed in the plugin settings that you can increase the number of connection retries (default is 5, 5 seconds apart). I am wondering if you can increase that number to, let say, 17280 retries. That should cover the whole day and night.

I don't think this setting will help, I think the problem is that the plugin thinks it is connected still to Kodi and are waiting for events, but the connection was lost somehow but nobody told that to the plugin.

jonib

[Exile82]

@Exile82 and @Luca Brasi: What version of the plugin are you using? have you tried the latest here?

It sends a ping command periodically to keep a connection alive, I might need to adjust it to detect non responding connection.

I don't really use the events from Kodi and I don't use any sleep modes so don't really know how they effect the events.

jonib

Hi jonib! That is a great bit of advice, I use the version which came along with the latest EG release. I checked the version and it is 0.6.19, an older release as it seems. I will try to update with the new .py file.
I am quite new with EG, is it possible to shut EG down, replace the old .py file with the new one, and then start EG again?
I don't think it is necessary for you to do any modifications at this point. I will try the new version first.
Thanks for great support.

[Luca Brasi]

Thanks jonib, I'll check it out. Not much time to test at the moment, bit I'll report back.

I am quite new with EG, is it possible to shut EG down, replace the old .py file with the new one, and then start EG again?

Yes that's how you do it. Like always it might be good advice to keep the old one. just in case.

[nissse]

Hello I have a quick question.

I use this plugin (as shown in pic) to execute a addon.
But is it any way to tell the addon to quit using eventghost ?

[jonib]

I use this plugin (as shown in pic) to execute a addon.
But is it any way to tell the addon to quit using eventghost ?

There is no (as far as I know) standard commands to addons, so you need to ask where there is support for this specific addon.
After you know the JSON-RPC command then there should be no problem using it in EventGhost.

jonib

[Exile82]

@Exile82 and @Luca Brasi: What version of the plugin are you using? have you tried the latest here?

It sends a ping command periodically to keep a connection alive, I might need to adjust it to detect non responding connection.

I don't really use the events from Kodi and I don't use any sleep modes so don't really know how they effect the events.

jonib

Hi jonib! That is a great bit of advice, I use the version which came along with the latest EG release. I checked the version and it is 0.6.19, an older release as it seems. I will try to update with the new .py file.
I am quite new with EG, is it possible to shut EG down, replace the old .py file with the new one, and then start EG again?
I don't think it is necessary for you to do any modifications at this point. I will try the new version first.
Thanks for great support.

Hi jonib! Just wanted you to know that this plugin works much better with the update. Only one time EG has failed to receive events from my Kodi setup, and I can live with that. Thanks a lot!

[Luca Brasi]

Same here, have been running the newer version for couple of days here on my sys and all went well...

[egbaud]

How do you determine which version you're running?

[jonib]

How do you determine which version you're running?

Hmm, not sure there is a better way then to open the plugins "__init__.py" file in a text editor and checking for "version".

I'll probably add the version in the plugins config dialog to make it easier.

jonib