Using OSD and display current volume level [SOLVED]

[InterlinkKnight]

Thanks to the users "jonib" and "olurz", I can now give an easy-to-understand instructions to display the current volume in percentage or bar and the MUTE state (if the sound is ON or OFF):





1. Go to one of your volume macros (example: UP) and add "Show OSD" action (right-click -> Add Action... -> EventGhost -> Show OSD) and introduce this code (where it say: "Text to display"):

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Volume {int(round(eg.result))}%

or if you want the volume bar insert this code insted:

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Volume {'|'*int(round(eg.result))+'.'*(100-int(round(eg.result)))} {int(round(eg.result))}%

Note: You need to place the "Show OSD" before the "Autorepeat current macro" (if you have one).


2. Repeat the process for the other volume macro (example: DOWN) or just copy that previous action to the other macro.

3. The last thing you should want to do is to display the Mute condition. For that, go to your Mute macro (Toggle Mute) and add "Show OSD" action (right-click -> Add Action... -> EventGhost -> Show OSD) and introduce this code:

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Mute {("Off", "On")[eg.result]}

Or you can choose to display the revert situation, showing "Sound On" or "Sound Off". For that use this code:

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Sound {("On", "Off")[eg.result]}

You can adjust the position, font, color, time, etc. in the settings of the "Show OSD" event (double-click the "Show OSD" event).

I attach a screenshot of my settings. Yours should be looking something like this:


I make a video tutorial showing how to use EventGhost, including how to make display the current volume. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnMzu1h1gxc


P.S. English is not my primary language so be understandable about my bad english.

If you are lost (or lazy), here is the entire code of the configuration file

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1544" Guid="{93CA3DF2-7148-4B9C-9F06-FB3D578935B9}" Time="1327405609.27">
    <Autostart Name="Autostart" Expanded="True">
        <Plugin Identifier="Lirc" Guid="{17A77662-BB69-4C37-AA43-71213958C5C4}" File="Lirc">
            gAIoWAkAAAAxMjcuMC4wLjFxAE09IomJiUsAS8iIS0BLCnRxAS4=
        </Plugin>
    </Autostart>
    <Folder Name="Change Volume">
        <Macro Name="Volume Up">
            <Event Name="Lirc.vol+" />
            <Action>
                System.ChangeMasterVolumeBy(1.0, 0)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'Volumen {int(round(eg.result))}%', u'0;-64;0;0;0;700;0;0;0;0;3;2;1;34;Arial', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 5, (0, 100), 0, 3.0, True)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.5, 0.20000000000000001, 0.029999999999999999, 0.0)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Volume Down">
            <Event Name="Lirc.vol-" />
            <Action>
                System.ChangeMasterVolumeBy(-1.0, 0)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'Volumen {int(round(eg.result))}%', u'0;-64;0;0;0;700;0;0;0;0;3;2;1;34;Arial', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 5, (0, 100), 0, 3.0, True)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.5, 0.20000000000000001, 0.029999999999999999, 0.0)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Mute" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Lirc.mute" />
            <Action>
                System.ToggleMute()
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'Mute {("Off", "On")[eg.result]}', u'0;-64;0;0;0;700;0;0;0;0;3;2;1;34;Arial', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 5, (0, 100), 0, 3.0, True)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

The user bskchaos submit another way to show a volume bar and mute.





Is more complicated to setup, so I better publish the entire code of the settings:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1540">
    <Folder Name="Volume Control" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="Decrease Volume" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="X10.VolumeDown" />
            <Event Name="ErgoMouse.Button.234" />
            <Event Name="HID.Button.3" />
            <Action>
                System.ChangeMasterVolumeBy(-5.0, 0)
            </Action>
            <Action id="762">
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'{"c" *int(round(eg.result) * 0.20) + "g" *int(round(100-(eg.result)) * 0.20)}', u'0;-12;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;2;3;2;1;18;Webdings', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 3, (8, 48), 0, 2.0, True)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.40000000000000002, 0.050000000000000003, 0.01, 0.40000000000000002)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Increase Volume" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="X10.VolumeUp" />
            <Event Name="ErgoMouse.Button.233" />
            <Event Name="HID.Button.4" />
            <Action>
                System.ChangeMasterVolumeBy(5.0, 0)
            </Action>
            <Action id="770">
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'{"c" *int(round(eg.result) * 0.20) + "g" *int(round(100-(eg.result)) * 0.20)}', u'0;-12;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;2;3;2;1;18;Webdings', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 3, (8, 48), 0, 2.0, True)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.40000000000000002, 0.050000000000000003, 0.01, 0.40000000000000002)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Mute Sound Card" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="X10.Mute" />
            <Action>
                System.ToggleMute(0)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.NewJumpIf(XmlIdLink(777), 0, False)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'X\xf0', u'0;-64;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;2;3;2;1;18;Webdings', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 3, (16, 56), 0, 2.0, True)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Show OSD: Mute ON" id="777" Expanded="True">
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'Xr', u'0;-64;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;2;3;2;1;18;Webdings', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 3, (16, 56), 0, 0.0, True)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

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I am new with EventGhost but I've manage to get it working great.

I try many kind of applications to control the computer with my remote control using WinLIRC. EventGhost is the best because is easy to understand and setup. But the only thing I find horrible about EventGhost is that is too difficult to make the simple thing of displaying the volume (OSD).

In Girder is easy to make it work; in uICE can't be easier; in EventGhost, well I've been learning a lot about the program and I didn't know it was even possible to show the current volume. I don't even know how to show anything (like when I press a button, display for 2 seconds the name of the button).

I read some post on this forums and everything looks so complicated, using lines of text that I don't understand.

What I want is a simple instructions (from scratch) to make display:
- The name of the button is press it, for 2 seconds
- The current volume when the volume state change

How to do it? How to customize?

Why is not a simple way to do this things on EventGhost?

Please help. All the post I've read explain things like everyone already know what are you talking about. Is like you need to understand a millions things before you can get this simple thing to work. Like this post: http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=685

Can anyone help me?

BTW I am going to make a video showing how to use EventGhost (a tutorial) and upload it on youtube, so if you help me I will also show this part on the video. I want to everyone be able to learn this things easily.

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[jonib]

- The name of the button is press it, for 2 seconds

I can think of two ways, I don't know if they are what you want:
First is to make a macro(rightclick Add Macro...) EventGhost\Show OSD and then add a event from your remote control. Configure the event and change the button name part to *. I had to change HauppaugeIR.Play that I get from my remote to HauppaugeIR.*. Now configure the Show OSD action and add this {eg.eventString} to Text to display. This should show the button event for any remote button you press(depending on what events the remote control plugin generates).

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Second is to create a macro for every remote button, adding the specific button event. and the using Show OSD configured to show that button name. A bit more work but you can put in the real button name in Show OSD.

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jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

Thanks jonib. At least I am understanding a little bit more about it.

But my big question is still there. How to show the volume? You know, the horizontal bar that show the percentage of the current master volume, like a TV, uICE, Girder, etc.

Not only I am asking how to do it, I am also asking why is so complicated?

I am disappointed. No documentation/tutorial about this (the volume thing)? Especially for starters with EventGhost. Is like EventGhost is made to be used only for experts.

That's why I am going to make a video tutorial on youtube (BTW there's not even one video tutorial for EventGhost). But first, I need to solve this.

[jinxdone]

Some of the default actions return data in the eg.result variable, such as the change volume actions return the current volume in percentage 0-100. You can read what is in the variable with {eg.result}.

To display that percentage as a nice graphical slider you need a 'slider OSD' plugin, which doesn't exist at the moment.

I was working on an improved OSD plugin almost a year ago now, which would let you generate graphical OSD windows like sliders. I got it up to a stage that the most critical "under-the-hood" pieces are there, but I'm not happy with the graphics generation routines, which need a complete overhaul. I just havn't had the time to work on it lately.

[jonib]

Not only I am asking how to do it, I am also asking why is so complicated?

I am disappointed. No documentation/tutorial about this (the volume thing)? Especially for starters with EventGhost. Is like EventGhost is made to be used only for experts.

The problem Isn't that EventGhost is only made for experts, it's just not finished, so it's not fully documented and a lot of functionality is less user friendly sometimes.

jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

Some of the default actions return data in the eg.result variable, such as the change volume actions return the current volume in percentage 0-100. You can read what is in the variable with {eg.result}.

I read this post http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=685 about how to show current volume in percentage 0-100, but I don't understand it. I try to replicated what I understand but doesn't work.

I mean I try adding a Python Command:

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eg.WinAPI.SoundMixer.GetMasterVolume()

And then adding a Show OSD with:

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Volume: ({int(eg.result)}%)

It doesn't work. What I miss?

To display that percentage as a nice graphical slider you need a 'slider OSD' plugin, which doesn't exist at the moment.

I was working on an improved OSD plugin almost a year ago now, which would let you generate graphical OSD windows like sliders. I got it up to a stage that the most critical "under-the-hood" pieces are there, but I'm not happy with the graphics generation routines, which need a complete overhaul. I just havn't had the time to work on it lately.

In the case of the bars, then I need to wait until the plugin is finished. I'm glad that at least people like you is working on it. Good luck.

EventGhost is really great in many ways.

[jonib]

It doesn't work. What I miss?

How doesn't it work? do you get an error or nothing happens.

Unfortunately my sound drivers drivers are weird so the sound stuff in EventGhost don't work for me, but I think you need to use this:

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eg.WinApi.SoundMixer.GetMasterVolume()

And you should be able to put it directly in an Show OSD with the below code

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{eg.WinApi.SoundMixer.GetMasterVolume()}

jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

How doesn't it work? do you get an error or nothing happens.

I was getting an error, but it doesn't matter because the codes you give me works! Thank you so much.

The last thing I want to know is how to remove the fractions. Example: the volume show 71.9996948196

How do a make to show just 71 (natural numbers only)?

[jonib]

The last thing I want to know is how to remove the fractions. Example: the volume show 71.9996948196

How do a make to show just 71 (natural numbers only)?

Try this.

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{int(round(eg.WinApi.SoundMixer.GetMasterVolume()))}

jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

Yes, it works! I really appreciate your help jonib.

I was writing the instructions to publish it here (for other users to read) but then I realize that the last thing to do is to show the Mute ON or OFF state.

First I just simply make a Show OSD with the text MUTE, but obviously that doesnÔÇÖt work because that only show when you press the button, but the Mute state (on or off) is not shown.

You know what I mean right? Is possible? How?

[jonib]

First I just simply make a Show OSD with the text MUTE, but obviously that doesnÔÇÖt work because that only show when you press the button, but the Mute state (on or off) is not shown.

Try this

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{eg.WinApi.SoundMixer.GetMute()}

I don't know what it returns so we might need to tweak it(if it works at all).

jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

I don't know what it returns so we might need to tweak it(if it works at all).

Is funny, shows "1" when the sound is OFF (MUTE is ON) and "0" when the sound is ON (MUTE is OFF).

You are close jonib, but we need a "tweak" to convert those numbers to text.

[jonib]

Is funny, shows "1" when the sound is OFF (MUTE is ON) and "0" when the sound is ON (MUTE is OFF).

Try this.

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{("Off", "On")[eg.WinApi.SoundMixer.GetMute()]}

jonib

[InterlinkKnight]

Thanks to the user jonib, I can now give an easy-to-understand instructions to display the current volume in percentage and the MUTE state (if the sound is ON or OFF):

1. Go to one of your volume macros (example: UP) and add "Show OSD" action (right-click -> Add Action... -> EventGhost -> Show OSD) and introduce this code (where it say: "Text to display"):

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Volume {int(round(eg.result))}%

or if you want the volume bar insert this code insted:

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Volume {'|'*int(round(eg.result))+'.'*(100-int(round(eg.result)))} {int(round(eg.result))}%

Note: You need to place the "Show OSD" before the "Autorepeat current macro" (if you have one).


2. Repeat the process for the other volume macro (example: DOWN) or just copy that previous action to the other macro.

3. The last thing you should want to do is to display the Mute condition. For that, go to your Mute macro (Toggle Mute) and add "Show OSD" action (right-click -> Add Action... -> EventGhost -> Show OSD) and introduce this code:

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Mute {("Off", "On")[eg.result]}

Or you can choose to display the revert situation, showing "Sound On" or "Sound Off". For that use this code:

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Sound {("On", "Off")[eg.result]}

You can adjust the position, font, color, time, etc. in the settings of the "Show OSD" event (double-click the "Show OSD" event).

I attach a screenshot of my settings. Yours should be looking something like this:

I make a video tutorial showing how to use EventGhost, including how to make display the current volume. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnMzu1h1gxc


P.S. English is not my primary language so be understandable about my bad english.

[jonib]

Nice

You could put these instructions in your first post in this thread, so anybody searching would find them directly.

jonib