EventGhostPlus (4 Viewers)

[HomeY]

Looks like the latest version doesn't work with MP 1.5. And what do you think about writing the currently installed version number somewhere in Configuration so that I know which one I got installed?

v1.1.3.3 is compiled against 1.5.100 (because of the .NET 4 switch), so it will only run on 1.6 Pre Release++

Version number can be found on .dll Properties > Details
and in the logs > 14-11-2013 19:24:11[Info] Starting EventGhostPlus version 1.1.3.3

 

[K405]

Hi all,

I'm trying to set my Onkyo to all stereo listening mode when I enter music in MePo but EventGhost can't distinguish between music/series/movies it's all one generic event Main.MediaPortal.Window.Activate although it has extra info in the logs.

Please help

 

[Illuminator]

Hi,
when you start music playing there will be an event
Main.MediaPortal.Music.Play(...)

This is what I use for my AVR...

 

[K405]

music playing there will be an event
Main.MediaPortal.Music.Play(...)

Hi Illuminator,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, that's what I have tried and it works but my AVR shows an OSD message on my TV every time a mode or control is set. It's not very elegant imo.

 

[HomeY]

I recall i did set something up for detecting if Music was running or not, for a similar action. Never made any use of it, but it should work, so worth a try:

1. Add a Python Command to Autostart (bottom) with statement: eg.globals.ListeningMusic = False
2. Add a folder. I've named it 'ListeningMusic Variable'
3. Add the Macros and Python Commands as shown on the screenshot below:

Now you can move the events to it (as shown above), and when you start Radio or Music, EventGhost shows:

 

[K405]

Hi HomeY,

Thanks for your reply. I am not sure what your method gains over using the already available Main.MediaPortal.Music.Play and Main.MediaPortal.Stop.Music in my case. I will still have an OSD message from my AVR saying it switched to AllChannelStereo every time I start to play a song which is what I want to avoid.

I guess I need to do it the other way around. Let Eventghost mediaportal plugin control MePo so listening mode is set when I enter Music same goes for Movies/TV/Series/whatever.

Pretty cool if it would all work flawlessly.

 

[wawa79]

Hello,

This plugin gives me endless ideas to extend possible interactions of MP with HomeSeer-based automation system. Catching MP messages in EG allows HomeSeer to know what I am doing in MP and sending messages from EG to MP allows visual notification from HomeSeer when MP is On.

But I have an issue with the Mediaportal Message Sender: when the message contains characters such as é è ô, they are replaced by ? in the message popup in Mediaportal. I suppose it is a character-set issue.
My search for a work-around with a Python script ( mystring.encode('????') or mystring.decode('????') or escaping the string sequence was unsuccessful! I just managed to freeze MP with my tests.

Could you help me to fix the issue?

By the way, i also wrote a simple macro in Eventghost to dismiss any displaying popup message in MP when a second message is received (basically it sends an "OK" command when a popup is already displayed).
Because HomeSeer notifies me for various events (such as garage doors opening/opened/closed), dismissing previous popup is really useful to avoid popup accumulation in MP
The macro works fine but could be replaced by an additional parameter to force popup replacement or not: idea for your next release!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1582">
    <Folder Name="MP messaging" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="not displaying message" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="TCP.MediaPortal.Message.Closed" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(52))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="displaying message">
            <Event Name="TCP.MediaPortal.Message.Displaying" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(52))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Send message to MP" id="49" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Main.HomeSeer.MPMessage" />
            <Action Name="Dismiss existing message" id="52" Enabled="False">
                MPMessageSender.SendRemoteButton(u'Ok')
            </Action>
            <Action>
                MPMessageSender.SendMessage(u'EventGhostPlus Message', u'This message overrides previously displayed message', u'', 60, u'')
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

 

[HomeY]

By the way, i also wrote a simple macro in Eventghost to dismiss any displaying popup message in MP when a second message is received (basically it sends an "OK" command when a popup is already displayed).
Because HomeSeer notifies me for various events (such as garage doors opening/opened/closed), dismissing previous popup is really useful to avoid popup accumulation in MP
The macro works fine but could be replaced by an additional parameter to force popup replacement or not: idea for your next release!

The plugin has a build-in queue system for messages, since the idea was not to miss anything when a message is on screen. Maybe it's possible to enable/disable this queue system with a checkbox, which would fix your problem.
@DaBIGOne any ideas?

 

[azzuro]

question :
this plugins can added the minidisplay support, for send info from MediaPortal to External display ???

MP -> EventghostPlus -> EventGhost -> Display Plugin -> Hardware device
i don't know, if the best is to create a new Minidisplay device, called EventGhost or added in your own plugin.

 

[Cpoc]

Hello I'm coming from IRSS and trying to get eventghost working with usbuirt. Its a clean install in a new server. My old setup was with IRSS and usbuirt and it worked great but IRSS could only support 1 usbuirt and eventghost can support 2 or more usbuirt by renameing the usbuirts. The problem is with IRSS I could assign which card to use with the port number of the usbuirt. So lets say I have 3 capture cards and set card 1 to use port 1 card card 2 to use port 2 and card 3 to use external port 3. In eventghost I have no idea how to set this up. Can this even be done. I know in eventghost you can select which port to use but how do you assign the port of the usbuirt to the card you want to use in mediaportal. I am lost please help.