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<blockquote data-quote="wawa79" data-source="post: 1042349" data-attributes="member: 85529">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 &quot;OK&quot; 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 MPThe macro works fine but could be replaced by an additional parameter to force popup replacement or not: idea for your next release![CODE]&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; ?&gt;&lt;EventGhost Version=&quot;1582&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Folder Name=&quot;MP messaging&quot; Expanded=&quot;True&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Macro Name=&quot;not displaying message&quot; Expanded=&quot;True&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Event Name=&quot;TCP.MediaPortal.Message.Closed&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(52))&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Macro&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Macro Name=&quot;displaying message&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Event Name=&quot;TCP.MediaPortal.Message.Displaying&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(52))&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Macro&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Macro Name=&quot;Send message to MP&quot; id=&quot;49&quot; Expanded=&quot;True&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Event Name=&quot;Main.HomeSeer.MPMessage&quot; /&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Action Name=&quot;Dismiss existing message&quot; id=&quot;52&quot; Enabled=&quot;False&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MPMessageSender.SendRemoteButton(u'Ok')&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MPMessageSender.SendMessage(u'EventGhostPlus Message', u'This message overrides previously displayed message', u'', 60, u'')&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Action&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Macro&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/Folder&gt;&lt;/EventGhost&gt;[/CODE]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wawa79, post: 1042349, member: 85529"] 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! [CODE]<?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>[/CODE] [/QUOTE]

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