MediaPortal Message Plugin PLEASE INCLUDE IN NEXT EG RELEASE

[HaTe]

You can download Message Plugin for MediaPortal from here: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensi ... -for-mp1-2

Updated version by Wiedmann (not yet in EventGhost release): viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3171#p21820


Old topic:

Hello,

Since the MP website has changed, the link to the Message Plugin doesn't work anymore. Also, since MP 1.2beta, all plugins have to be updated for compatibility checks. I did that for the Message Plugin and you can find it here:
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensi ... -for-mp1-2

So, would you update the link to Message Plugin in the MediaPortal plugin?

Thanks!

[Krazz]

Hi, do you feel like updating again for 1.2.0 FINAL?

[vuego]

This plugin will work for MediaPortal 1.2.0 Final and 1.2.1.

I modified EventGhost's MediaPortal plugin with the new URL provided by HaTe. Hopefully someone with access can add it to be distributed with EventGhost.

[Wiedmann]

The URL for the MediaPortal extension has changed again.

Also the EG plugin have actions which are not defined in MediaPortal (or with another name). And some actions are missing.

I've changed the extension in this way for me:

• correct MediaPortal Message Plugin URL
• add EG support URL
• group/name actions like in MediaPortal
• remove not existing actions
• add missing actions

BTW:
Maybe a moderator will move this thread to the plugin section?

[noesis]

Hi Wiedmann,

I like some of what you have done with this alteration but not all of it. For example the grouping seems like a step forward, and some of the additions which are supported by the media portal plugin (Asterisk & NumberSign for example) however you have changed things like the macro names for the ten numbers 0-9 which would require the same number of changes in an existing EG configuration using this plugin, as opposed to the old one. The same applies to the 2 renamed volume controls and the 4 directional controls. You should keep them like the original, as you risk breaking a lot of people's existing and already working configurations IMHO. I'm not a moderator or anything but I would think that by changing the simple wording of some things as much as you did, requires a lot of work for people who have been using the older EG Media Portal plugin.

I guess that's just my 2 cents as I've also modified this file and added some macros to my personal MP EG plugin and the Message Plugin for MP but most users want their stuff to just work and not break from a change - Hence I think you changed a little bit too much with regard to the renaming, not the resorting.

[Wiedmann]

however you have changed things like the macro names for the ten numbers 0-9 which would require the same number of changes in an existing EG configuration using this plugin,

I know what you mean. But IMHO the current implementation of this plugin is wrong. You doesn't see in the EG plugin what you can see in MP MessagePlugin extension configuration.

For "old" user my update requires some changes in their existing configuration (maybe better name it 2.0 instead of 1.1, which allows BC break). But for new user this is much easier. They can see the same thing on both side if they start to configure.

Just remembering myself. What triggers Power1,Power2,PowerTV from EG in MP... and after some time I found out:
- Power1 does not exists in MP
- Power2 is "Power PC"
- PowerTV is "Power TV"

Well, and the numers 0-9 are just having a logical problem. E.g. number 0 doesn't trigger a numpad0 in MP, instead it triggers a num0 (same char message, but different keyup-/keydown message)

I've also modified this file and added some macros to my personal MP EG plugin and the Message Plugin for MP

An idea for the next update of the EG plugin:
The plugin is reading the MessagePlugin configuration and does not define own actions. Thus, if you rename/add an action in MP, you have the same in EG. With such an update, you have initially the same names in EG like you can see them in my version.

[DaBIGOne]

I have created a plugin for MediaPortal that can also be used with this EventGhost Plugin.

My plugin also features sending events to EventGhost like, play, pause, resume stop for video and music including extra information in the payload, like filename played and genre of the file played.

My plugin is called EventGhostPlus (and it's for MediaPortal to be clear) and can be downloaded here: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/input-output/eventghostplus?lang=en