play selected video from Event

[kenrad]

Spud, Is it possible to play a selected video from an event. I use an instance of XBMC in the 3 year olds room and it is always the same movie at bed time that she falls asleep to is it possible to have an event that will trigger that movie to start playing with your plug in.

also I am not seeing a ratings device created with your plugin?

Cheers
Ken

[spud]

Spud, Is it possible to play a selected video from an event. I use an instance of XBMC in the 3 year olds room and it is always the same movie at bed time that she falls asleep to is it possible to have an event that will trigger that movie to start playing with your plug in.

No it's not possible with the current version (or at least very difficult), I was waiting for HST to give more details about the Media API to implement this kind of things properly. I'm tired waiting so I'm going to add a simple action so that you can open any media from your library.

also I am not seeing a ratings device created with your plugin?

there is a "MPAA rating" which gives ratings like G, PG, PG-13 to help parents decide what films are appropriate for their children. Are you talking about this kind of rating or the IMDB rating that gives a grade based on viewers opinion of the film?

[kenrad]

I am talking about the MPAA rating. From what I understand there should be a device.created for.this

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[spud]

yes but you need to install version 3.0.0.7 available from here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=161818

[kenrad]

Ok, i got XBMC 3.0.07 running and I now have the ratings device showing

that I would like to do is trigger events based on this to help me monitor what the kids are watching is this possible? and if so how do I do it?

thanks Ken

[spud]

read the 3 latest post here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...76#post1093676

[kenrad]

Ok Im really confused about the scripting stuff.

What I would live to do is if rating is Rated R then

run application PCCompalinn "the movie in the bedroom is rated R"

I currently use an external program for all of my TTS because it allows me to have life like talking facesets how would I script this

so in the script this is what I would like it to do when the rating is changed
Run (path to PCC)/pccompanion.exe "this_movie_is_rated_P_G"
Thanks Ken

[spud]

you cannot easily detect when the rating is changed (until HST implements the status trigger) so instead use the XBMC status device to detect when a new video is playing and then add a condition within the script to filter on the MPAA rating like this:

Sub Main(ByVal parm as object)

    '4797 is the reference ID of my MPAA Rating device
    Dim mpaaRating = hs.DeviceString(4797) 

    If mpaaRating = "Rated G" Then
       hs.Launch("pccompanion.exe", "This movie is rated G", path_to_pcc, 0)
    End If
    
End Sub

[kenrad]

So where path to PCC is it should be c:\ programfiles\offloading correct?

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[spud]

my bad, actually you need to put the path in the first parameter, the third parameter is the working directory you can leave it blank, so try this:

hs.Launch("c:\programfiles\offloading\pccompanion.exe", "This movie is rated G", "", 0)

[spud]

Spud, Is it possible to play a selected video from an event. I use an instance of XBMC in the 3 year olds room and it is always the same movie at bed time that she falls asleep to is it possible to have an event that will trigger that movie to start playing with your plug in.

In version 3.0.0.9 available from http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...63#post1078363
I have added the "Player Open Media" action to let you start playing a movie or tv show from an event:

[kenrad]

Spud, This is an awesome addon I love it

I have another idea similar to it tho. Is it possible to trigger an event based on the title of the movie playing that way we could setup different lighting scenes based on the movie playing.

What do you think?

Cheers Ken

[spud]

Spud, This is an awesome addon I love it

I have another idea similar to it tho. Is it possible to trigger an event based on the title of the movie playing that way we could setup different lighting scenes based on the movie playing.

What do you think?

Cheers Ken

Once again this is something that will be easy to do when HST will add trigger based on status string. Feel free to add comments in this ticket to try to speed up the implementation of this feature: http://www.homeseer.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=939

However, it is possible to do it right now by using a script like the one you wrote for ratings.