What can the MUSIC TITLE and VIDEO TITLE be used for ? Or what do they do?
Thanks
For now it just to show the title vera. For sure i will like to add controll in both way, didn’t have time to play with but will try it fo sure.
OK well it works, I enabled the titles in the XBMC add-on and now in Vera I can see the name of the music track that is currently playing!
Would like to see something in XBMC for controlling Vera / Z-wave devices!! Fingers Crossed.
Many Thanks
I finally had some time to switch over from my old version of the plugin to yours. It is just absolutely great! I didn’t test all of it yet, but so far it is running perfectly on my zbox based xbmc device.
Thanks for all of the work you did, I am very glad I kind of made you start to work on the plugin by offering you what I did in advance. ;D
I once made some code which uses the xbmc json rpc to send commands from vera to xbmc. This way you can also control xbmc from vera. Let me know if you are interessed in that, then I can send this to you too…
And another THANK YOU for thanking me in your xbmc plugin! 8)
Slightly off topic but do any of you guys know how to get IP cameras to be displayed within the Xbmc interface?
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Hi mic
I have been trying to use your excellent plugin with the vera alerts plugin to get a notification of what is currently been watched on xbmc but i am having issues getting the variable of the title of the current video. The author of vera alerts tryed helping me out here http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=13637.msg103039.msg#103039
Can you tell me how his example string should look for using your plugin to display the current title
Also I just noticed while playing around that I no longer have a notification tab for your plugin on my dashboard…I’m not sure when it disappeared …the last time I used it was on a different firmware and version of the plugin
Thanks chixxi for the xbmc side i have no problem at all.but i never take time to check how the plugin for the vera work so with the work that you already have done you make my job easier .
For the music and video title here how it work. Very simple, when xbmc start something playing, it retrieval the title, replace the space with the underscore and send it to the varable of the xbmcstate plugin. Let me know if that help you a little bit and it coold be cool to add the option in the xbmc plugin to also interract with the vera alert plugin, i didn’t try it my self but will try it for sure in short future.
[quote=“Mic”]Thanks chixxi for the xbmc side i have no problem at all.but i never take time to check how the plugin for the vera work so with the work that you already have done it have make give a good help.
For the music and video title here how it work. Very simple, when xbmc start something playing, it retrieval the title, replace the space with the underscore and send it to the varable of the xbmcstate plugin. Let me know if that help you a little bit and it coold be cool to add the option in the xbmc plugin to also interract with the vera alert plugin, i didn’t try it my self but will try it for sure in short future.[/quote]
What is the service id and variable name where the variable is placed
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Here a snipe of the code that i use to send the title to the vera:
if (str(settings.getSetting("video_title")) == "Yes"):
urllib2.urlopen('http://%s:3480/data_request?id=variableset&DeviceNum=%s&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:XBMCState1&Variable=IdleTime&Value=%s' % (ip, dev, currentvideo))
So you have all the information in there.
[quote=“Mic”]Here a snipe of the code that i use to send the title to the vera:
if (str(settings.getSetting("video_title")) == "Yes"):
urllib2.urlopen('http://%s:3480/data_request?id=variableset&DeviceNum=%s&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:XBMCState1&Variable=IdleTime&Value=%s' % (ip, dev, currentvideo))
So you have all the information in there.[/quote]
OK so I have set an alert to be sent when a video starts playing with this string “XBMC is now playing: {device([52].service[urn:upnp-org:serviceId:XBMCState1].IdleTime)}” where 52 is my xbmcstate device number and the alert i get is “XBMC is now playing:0”
Do you have any idea why this does not work?
I did not try the alert plugin sorry, if you know the url to send somthing to the vera alert plugin, we could maybe add it to the xbmc addon so when something will play, it will send the title to the vera and to the app, no need to pass in the vera. Let me know if you have the url, i will take a look.
I try your idea but with prowl notification app for the ios and it work like a charm, code is not finish yet but will try to add in the setting, the api key and the priority. So like i said in my previous post, if you know the url to send it to you app let me know, i could make it.
There should not be a need to add anything the vera alerts plugin should be able to pull the title straight from the xbmcstate variable i believe
Actually I also believe you could test this with prowl thru the vera alerts plugin as i believe vera alerts has the ability to forward notifications to the prowl notification plugin (I don’t use ios or prowl so I can’t test myself )
Vera Alerts is a fantastic plugin in my opinion…if I could just get this to work 
Hope baxy_AU that you don’t mind, i found that your idea of sending video and music title to notification was a good idea. For now, i have ios system (iphone and ipad) so prowl is the way to go. Here a attachment of the test version. You have the ability to add your api key end priority number in the addon setting. Remember to reset xbmc after change. For now it send the video title and (artist name/song title) for the music. So if some of you guy like this feature and have ios, try it and let me know. For the android user, if you give me the url of a program to send notification, i could add it, now that the code is in place, it will be simple.
I dont mine at all…I do wonder if you have read my last 2 posts tho:D
Yes i did. But i think add this function to the addon was more simple to me. So that why i took this road.
Ok…to each their own
Is there any possibility to add a notification tab to the xbmcstate settings on vera