EventGhost

xhunter wrote:How can I add
"subtitlesearch" (preferably in fullscreen only),
movie titles ( activatewindow(videos,movietitles) ),
or tv titles ( activatewindow(videos,movietitles)) ?

xhunter wrote:I am really sorry that I wasn't clear.
I thought as this plugin executes xbmc/kodi commands, it would be enough to just mention those commands (they could probably be new),

found the last two ("TvShowTitles" & "MovieTitle"), I was usning "Remote->My TV" & "Remote->My Video",
I found it under "Windows" , "Show TV Shows Screen" & "Show Movies Screen",

still I don't think there is anything that executes a subtitle search.

jonib wrote: This might work JSON-RPC command for subtitle search.

   Result:
   {
     "currentwindow": {
       "id": 12005, 
       "label": "Fullscreen video"
     }
   } 

xhunter wrote:that actually did the trick,

it took me a while to figure out how JSON-RPC works, how to enable it and update it etc.., but eventually I was able to make it work.

one question, do you think it is possible to check kodi state and only if it's in "fullscreenvideo" (video playback screen), execute this command?

[["fullscreen"]]

if eg.result["fullscreen"] == True:
    eg.result = True
else:
    eg.result = False

jonib wrote:This is how I do it:
JSON-RPC action: GUI.GetProperties with parameter:

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[["fullscreen"]]

Then a Python script action:

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if eg.result["fullscreen"] == True:
    eg.result = True
else:
    eg.result = False

Then a Jump action to another macro based on the result.

eg.plugins.XBMC2.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'"properties",["currentwindow"]', False)

xhunter wrote:Thank you very much, I got it working,

even through I didn't understand how "[["fullscreen"]]" was able to get the fullscreenvideo status, but it's working perfectly as it should.

but all I was getting was "invalid type string received"

[["fullscreen"]]

eg.plugins.XBMC.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'"properties":["currentwindow"]', False)

eg.plugins.XBMC.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'[["currentwindow"]]', False)

jonib wrote:Kodi JSON-RPC parameters can be "ByName" (uses {}) or "ByPosition" (uses []), GUI.Getproperties takes one parameter so my example is "ByPosition"

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[["fullscreen"]]

So it don't need the "properties" parameter name.

So your code was missing a colon (:) that is needed to separate the parameter name and value:

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eg.plugins.XBMC.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'"properties":["currentwindow"]', False)

Or you can skip the "properties" part and surround it with []:

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eg.plugins.XBMC.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'[["currentwindow"]]', False)

With other commands that have more parameters and you use "ByName" the order of the parameters doesn't matter and you can skip optional parameters, if you use "ByPosition" they need to be in exactly the right order and you can't skip parameters from the middle only from the end.

Edit:
Sometimes you can skip the "{}" or "[]" like if the parameter is only one string or number or something non ambiguous.
For example you can't remove the [] from this [["fullscreen"]] as the plugin wouldn't know its supposed to be a list of strings.

jonib

xhunter wrote:(I did try the colon (:), but it was giving me invalid syntax, that's why I tried comma (,).)

by the way, did you ever find a solution or a workaround for the problem with some of the windows like subtitle search locking up eventghost 60 sec timeout

I can't find the not wait option for JSON-RPC and so far nothing I have tried has worked, even tried creating 3 three timers with the timer plugin trying to abort the timer that initiated the subtitle search, but nothing has worked so far.

jonib wrote:Do you still have the colon problem?

eg.plugins.XBMC2.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'"properties":["currentwindow"]', False)

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     Python script "8", line 1, in <module>
       eg.plugins.XBMC2.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'"properties":["currentwindow"]', False)
     File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\XBMCRepeat\__init__.py", line 991, in __call__
       responce = self.plugin.JSON_RPC.send(method, ast.literal_eval(ParseString2(param)))
     File "ast.pyc", line 49, in literal_eval
     File "ast.pyc", line 37, in parse
   SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<unknown>, line 1)

eg.plugins.XBMC2.JSONRPC(u'GUI.Getproperties', u'{"properties":["currentwindow"]}', False)

jonib wrote:It was a while ago, but I believe it's a internal Kodi problem, where some functionality just isn't handled well when accessed externally. A discussion on Kodi forum.
I'll see if there is a workaround, but I think Kodi needs fixing.

Every JSON-RPC action should have a checkbox to disable the wait for that action.

jonib wrote:Edit: Apparently it was too late yesterday as this post was half done only. .

jonib wrote:Every JSON-RPC action should have a checkbox to disable the wait for that action.

xhunter wrote:sorry for the trouble, found the ver 0.6.33 and updated it, all seems to be order,
found the option you were talking about and it seems to have solved the problem

jonib wrote:Great. so stuff are working like you want it?
I assumed you had a newer version as you linked to the version I added that option, I need to check what needs fixing in the plugin and then have Pako put the new version in EventGhost as the version right now seems a bit old.

jonib

xhunter wrote:though after the update (tried clean installing), I get "XBMC2: Error opening: actions.dat" every time I start eventghost, but everything works just fine.

it was my bad, I sort of had this idea in my mind that because I installed the latest exe, I should have the latest plugins