Challenge...

[shaggy79]

Hi All,

Me again

Here goes ....
I have a small..... LED message board (http://www.dreamcheeky.com/led-message-board)

Is there any way I can link this to EG so :-

* When I Receive a message from 'PushBullet' It tells me I have received a message
* Automatically 'Scroll' the received message

Also Out of interest,
Can anyone think of other things in EG to use this with & how

Cheers Paul

[krambriw]

Basically, you need a plugin. To do that, you first have to have an api and related documentation, you would also need a display during development and testing.

Since this forum management and all development is managed by voluntary forces, the answer to your question depends on certain common circumstances:

1) The first and major one I would say is if there is a wider interest to support a specific device. Everything new and fancy related to media playing seems to have a rather high public interest. Like new fancy remote controls, controlling popular media or music players

2) Secondly, far behind though, some automation that makes life easier

3) The rest, like your example with the LED display, I assume has a rather low common interest so the chance is very little that you find a soul-mate with the same need, willing to write the plugin.

This is my assumption and I might be wrong, you will soon find out, depending on the number of responses you get, whether this will attract the community or not.

Best R Walter

[shaggy79]

Hi krambriw

Still learning as I go Just thought it would be interesting to see what ppl came up with but by the sounds of it not going to happen
Oh and I'm not clued up on these things at all, So I'm sorry to say you lost me at...

To do that, you first have to have an api and related documentation, you would also need a display during development and testing.

Thanks for the reply though.
Paul

[shaggy79]

Hi all,
Is there a way to Copy the highlighted text (in green below), Paste it into a Configuration settings (.ini) file and Save it
PushBullet.Note.Note [u' MESSAGE TEXT ', None, u'ujBpbiH1Dj2sjAy0gRhJdc', '', '2014-08-17 22:26:45']

[Pako]

Is there a way to Copy the highlighted text (in green below) ...

It is of course possible.
Check out the ConfigParser - Work with configuration files.
Note: Highlighted part you get as eg.event.payload[0] (in python script) or {eg.event.payload[0]} (in dialogue).

Pako

[shaggy79]

@Pako,

Thanks for the reply,
But after reading through the link you sent, I still have NO idea how to do what I need.

I have NO idea how to use 'Python' Or what you mean by..

in dialogue

I have Posted a screen capture of the (.ini) file I want to PASTE & SAVE to (I don't know if that will help explain it better).

PushBullet.Note.Note [u' MESSAGE TEXT ', None, u'ujBpbiH1Dj2sjAy0gRhJdc', '', '2014-08-17 22:26:45']

Where I want to paste the HIGHLIGHTED text to

Cheers Paul.

[krambriw]

Shaggy, could we please start to organize ourselves a bit? Try to bring up topics in the correct threads otherwise this board will soon look like ... a paintball target

Thanks for your understanding

[Pako]

I have NO idea how to use 'Python' Or what you mean by..

Write something into an ini file, it is not possible without using a script.
So if you need specific advice, you need to provide more information:
1) Attach ini file in which it is necessary to make an entry (I do not want a screenshot)
2) Specify the path to this file

Pako

[shaggy79]

@ krambriw,
Sorry pal, Where should of I posted it?

@Pako,
Thanks for your patience
The (.ini) file is located in :-
C:\Program Files\Dream Cheeky\LED Message
And here is the (.ini) file:-

LED.ini

(7.58 KiB) Downloaded 199 times

Thanks Again,
Paul.

[Pako]

Here is the solution.

shaggy79 - Dream Cheeky LED display.png (4.04 KiB) Viewed 7519 times

Create a macro as shown.
The content of Python script is here:

Code: Select all

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
iniFile = "C:\\Users\\XXXXXXXXXX\\Documents\\LED.ini"
#iniFile = "C:\\Program Files\\Dream Cheeky\\LED Message\\LED.ini"
section = "MessageInformation"
option = "TextMessageContent2"
cp = SafeConfigParser()
cp.read(iniFile)
if cp.has_option(section, option):
    #optionContent = cp.get(section, option,True)
    #print "optionContent =", optionContent
    cp.set(section, option, str(eg.event.payload[0]))
    fp = open(iniFile, 'wb') 
    cp.write(fp) 
    fp.close()    

Notes:
1) It does work, but (in my case) there is a problem with permissions to write the file. I had to move the file to the folder "Documents". I suppose that you'll have the same. I do not know if you can install the program in the Documents folder.
2) Maybe you notice that the contents of the file LED.ini looks different (lines are in a different order). This is normal and it should not matter.
3) I agree with Walter. See for yourself how many topics you have used for solving a single problem.
Pako

[shaggy79]

Pako,

Thank you, So So much.
It works perfect with no permission issues my end

Sorry about the multiple topics...... I've removed one, I think this is the only one left now.

Again many thanks.
Paul

[shaggy79]

Here is the solution.

shaggy79 - Dream Cheeky LED display.png

Create a macro as shown.
The content of Python script is here:

Code: Select all

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
iniFile = "C:\\Users\\XXXXXXXXXX\\Documents\\LED.ini"
#iniFile = "C:\\Program Files\\Dream Cheeky\\LED Message\\LED.ini"
section = "MessageInformation"
option = "TextMessageContent2"
cp = SafeConfigParser()
cp.read(iniFile)
if cp.has_option(section, option):
    #optionContent = cp.get(section, option,True)
    #print "optionContent =", optionContent
    cp.set(section, option, str(eg.event.payload[0]))
    fp = open(iniFile, 'wb') 
    cp.write(fp) 
    fp.close()    

Notes:
1) It does work, but (in my case) there is a problem with permissions to write the file. I had to move the file to the folder "Documents". I suppose that you'll have the same. I do not know if you can install the program in the Documents folder.
2) Maybe you notice that the contents of the file LED.ini looks different (lines are in a different order). This is normal and it should not matter.
3) I agree with Walter. See for yourself how many topics you have used for solving a single problem.
Pako

How much of a pain would this be to modify to work with other 'types' of pushes from PushBullet
like:-
* List
* Adresses

Paul

[shaggy79]

Hi all,
I have searched through the forum for 2 days and can't find anything to help me?..
How can I modify this code to put the 'Event name' instead of the 'message body'.
As the event name is the 'Subject' header of the message.
At the moment the red text is what I get on the LED message board.
Now I need the subject of the message instead (green text).
PushBullet.Note.Note (Message Text)

Code: Select all

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
iniFile = "C:\\Users\\XXXXXXXXXX\\Documents\\LED.ini"
#iniFile = "C:\\Program Files\\Dream Cheeky\\LED Message\\LED.ini"
section = "MessageInformation"
option = "TextMessageContent2"
cp = SafeConfigParser()
cp.read(iniFile)
if cp.has_option(section, option):
    #optionContent = cp.get(section, option,True)
    #print "optionContent =", optionContent
    cp.set(section, option, str(eg.event.payload[0]))
    fp = open(iniFile, 'wb') 
    cp.write(fp) 
    fp.close()    

Thanks,
Paul.

[jonib]

As the event name is the 'Subject' header of the message.
At the moment the red text is what I get on the LED message board.
Now I need the subject of the message instead (green text).
PushBullet.Note.Note (Message Text)

Use "eg.event.string" to get the event string, if you need the last part only you need to separate it first.

jonib

[shaggy79]

Hi Jonib,
Thanks for the reply .
I did not write the original code (I don't know how to ). So I have no idea what or how to do it

"Use "eg.event.string" to get the event string, if you need the last part only you need to separate it first."

You are correct I only need the last part (Green Text) 'PushBullet.Note.Note'.
I was hoping someone could modify the original code to what I needed .

Again Thanks Jonib.
Paul.