Denon Plugin - but think it's a more common problem....

[steppedup]

Hi all,

Windows 7, x64, Eventghost 0.3.7 r1486, with the Denon AV Serial Plugin.

This is a problem with the Denon AV Serial Plugin - but I think it's applicable eventghost in general, so asking here.

Specifically with this script:

someVarr = eg.globals.newChannel
eg.plugins.DenonSerial.Raw(u'eg.ParseString(someVarr)')

(Full code is listed below).

DenonSerial.Raw doesn't seem to be evaluating the variables, or letting me get at them. I've tried every version of {}, ' ', " ' ", eg.ParseString, that I can think of, and I just can't get the value contained in the variable to get passed on.

When I run the script, I just get "Plugin Script" listed in the log window.

I've also seen this behavior in the output file field of the File Operations Write plugin.

What am I missing?


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1486">
<Macro Name="Channel Up" Expanded="True">
<Event Name="Main.channelUp" />
<Action Name="radioChannelz = radioChannelz + 1">
EventGhost.PythonCommand(u'radioChannelz = radioChannelz + 1')
</Action>
<Action>
EventGhost.PythonCommand(u'newChannel = "TPAN" + aOrb + str(radioChannelz)')
</Action>
<Action>
EventGhost.PythonScript(u"someVarr = eg.globals.newChannel\neg.plugins.DenonSerial.Raw(u'eg.ParseString(eg.globals.newChannel)')")
</Action>
</Macro>
</EventGhost>

[Pako]

I look at it and see that you're absolutely right. The problem is really "more common" - problem exists between chair and keyboard.

When I look at it, I see that almost everything is wrong. It really does not work.
If you want help from us, you give us more information.

For example:
1. Which Denon device model you have? When we know it, we can find the manual (control protocol). If you have such a document, you can put it here.
2. I found a "Denon AVR control protocol" for the DENON AVR-988. There is for each command an example. You can also write an example of what you want to achieve?

Pako

[steppedup]

Hi Pako - thanks for replying, and sorry for not being more clear.

It might be difficult to troubleshoot this if people don't have a similar setup, so I've revised my question to the File Operations output file plugin which is much more common.

Here's the forum post:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1011

I'll extrapolate what I learn from there to handle the same question as applied to the Denon plugin.

Thanks again!

[Pako]

I now understand a bit about what's going on.
But even so, in your script is too many bugs.
Why did you not specify the exact type of Denon device, and an example of command to be sent over the serial line?

Pako