XBMC Event Receiver

[vortexrotor]

This is a plugin that is based on the good work that Bitmonster and KingD did regarding Broadcast Receiver / Listener but has many enhancements specific to XBMC.

Code Status: GA/Mature

This plugin enables the UDP Event Broadcast functionality of the user defined XBMC Host (configurable within the plugin) and listen's for events generated over UDP by the XBMC Host and parses and logs an event(s) to eventghost so the user can do just about anything with that to generate another event to act upon within EG.

A readme is included in the attached zip file.

As time permits I will update the link below with up to date versions.

For added future benefit, I am working on an HTTP.API integration functionality plugin and will incorporate/consolidate this into the plugin in a subsequent up-coming release for full two-way XBMC capability.

Feel free to use, modify and suggest mods as you see fit.

As far as installation... you know the drill! Enjoy!

[rickardk]

Great plugin!!!

Do you know if there is a way in EventGhost to match partial event name?
I would like to trigger a macro just on movie playback.

XBMC-Event.<b>MediaChanged:<li>MovieTitle:The Pony Remark;192.168.0.3;1</b>

The event contains the title (wich of course is variable). So I would like to use an asterix or something like partial event matching. Any ideas?

[Bartman]

Normaly the different sections should be separated with points and highly variable data should be put in the payload of the event.

[rickardk]

Thanks!
So "XBMC-Event.<b>MediaChanged:<li>MovieTitle:The Pony Remark;192.168.0.3;1</b>" should be formated like this:
"XBMC-Event.MediaChanged.MovieTitle ['The Pony Remark', '192.168.0.3']" to be more useful??

What I'm looking for is "MovieTitle" as this indicates that a video file is played and trigger a macro on this.
For audio I should be looking for "AudioTitle" to trigger macros on audio playback.

Is there anyway to parse the event name and create a new event with proper formating?

[Bartman]

make a python script and access the prefix and suffix of the eg.event variable.

[rickardk]

Thanks!

I now parse the event created by XBMC Event Receiver and create (for me) more usable events.
A little problem remains though. The "XBMC.<b>MediaChanged:<li>MovieTitle:Whatever;1</b>" shows when starting a new video file. But if you start and resume the same file this is never shown.
Is there anything else that is broadcasted by XBMC that a future version of the XBMC Event Receiver plugin can make use of to tell what kind (video or audio) of media that is played/started/resumed?

[rickardk]

The above should be solved if the plugin could retrieve media type ("Type:Audio" or "Type:Video") from /xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=getcurrentlyplaying on every "OnPlaybackStarted" and "OnPlaybackResumed" instead of just on "OnMediaChange" I think.

Events like this:
XBMCEvent.OnPlaybackResumed.Video.[Title of movie][IP]
XBMCEvent.OnPlaybackStarted.Audio.[Artist, Album, Song][IP]

or something like that...

Would also be great to get an event with playback status (and details) on request. An action that uses http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=g ... tlyplaying
on demand?

[vortexrotor]

Hello Everyone,

I am currently working on "all the above" with the integration of the HTTP.API capability of XBMC within the plugin itself which should solve alot of those issues.

Regarding the parsing script you put together "MOD". If you can share that with me, I can include/integrate it into the plugin so everyone can benefit.

Thanks for everyone's comments!

[JustGav]

Just spotted your post your post in the XBMC thread.

Grabbed your plugin, having some minor hassles because I use authentication on my system. Going to see what I can do.

Looks interesting though

EDIT : Eventghost under win7 issue (needed to run as administrator, doh!)

[giantpopples]

Hi !

I just installed your plugin and it's working great !

How is the development going ? I see that you try to implement the httpAPI to get more information on what's playing etc.. This is the only feature missing !

There is also a JSON-RPC API that is in development, maybe you could also have a look on it ? I don't know if it would be harder to implement but it seems to replace the older HTTPApi in the future.

Thanks again !!

[jesterod]

so how do i use this?

[jonib]

so how do i use this?

Did you read the Readme.txt in the .Zip achieve?

jonib

[jesterod]

no....

[vortexrotor]

Hi !

I just installed your plugin and it's working great !

How is the development going ? I see that you try to implement the httpAPI to get more information on what's playing etc.. This is the only feature missing !

There is also a JSON-RPC API that is in development, maybe you could also have a look on it ? I don't know if it would be harder to implement but it seems to replace the older HTTPApi in the future.

Thanks again !!

Hello BBCode, It's been awhile but been out of the country "working" my real job.

Anyhow.. I am waiting until the XBMC JSON-RPC stuff is cooked before I finish the new plugin. I am testing Dharma at the moment and I just released a Multiroom streaming plugin and its at is early stages but looks real promising so check it out.

VortexRotor

[Livin]

Anyhow.. I am waiting until the XBMC JSON-RPC stuff is cooked before I finish the new plugin. I am testing Dharma at the moment and I just released a Multiroom streaming plugin and its at is early stages but looks real promising so check it out.

VortexRotor

Since XBMC is in B2 now I'd think the JSON interface is pretty well baked?