Receiver volume level displayed in GUI? (1 Viewer)

[damaster]

Looking for some help on developing a plug-in/feature for MediaPortal 1.0. My Yamaha receiver (RX-V1800/RX-V3800) has an RS232 (serial) port interface through which I can access such information as the current volume level and input signal information. I'm looking to implement a plug-in for MediaPortal such that whenever I change the volume on my receiver, the volume level will be displayed on the MediaPortal GUI.

How should I go about implementing this on the MediaPortal side of things?:
- Should I implement it as a process plug-in that generates an ACTION_SHOW_VOLUME action whenever I detect a volume change from the serial port interface code?
- Will I be able to affect changes to the GUI as a plug-in or do I have to "hack" the core MediaPortal code to make this work?

All the help and pointers are appreciated.

Thanks

 

[est68]

AW: Receiver volume level displayed in GUI?

Hi - I am looking to do something similar for my TV.

Did your project get started and are you able to share some experiences/code?

cheers

Eckehard

 

[Snader]

We should have an option to calibrate the volume with the volume bar in MP. I currently have the volume bar in MP showing, but it doesn't do anything since I have an external amplifier. So, when I press volume up, the volume bar does 'grow', but only till some point;not on par with the real volume.