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- giftie - 2011-10-23

Here are some new test versions...

Dharma Version 1.0.53 -> http://www.mediafire.com/file/6r7d1pqnfeib7xx/script.cinema.experience.1.0.53.zip
Eden Version 2.0.53 -> http://www.mediafire.com/file/3s3l2g3pvmenk02/script.cinema.experience.2.0.53.zip

They have both been tested. Keep in mind with anything the deal with Eden -> Eden is still in development, changing every day! The script may or may not work for all flavors of Eden(also if the script freezes up XBMC try disabling TV Tunes)


- PatK - 2011-10-23

giftie Wrote:Eden Version 2.0.53 -> http://www.mediafire.com/file/3s3l2g3pvmenk02/script.cinema.experience.2.0.53.zip

They have both been tested. Keep in mind with anything the deal with Eden -> Eden is still in development, changing every day! The script may or may not work for all flavors of Eden(also if the script freezes up XBMC try disabling TV Tunes)
This works well for me with TV-Tunes turned off.

XBMC PreEden 11 Git 20111015-7163d78 (Oct 16th compile) T! 4.0.3 SVN


- giftie - 2011-10-23

PatK Wrote:This works well for me with TV-Tunes turned off.

XBMC PreEden 11 Git 20111015-7163d78 (Oct 16th compile) T! 4.0.3 SVN

Thanks PatK...


- buges - 2011-10-24

unfortunately Apple movie trailers lite still not streaming (just hangs). If i select trailers from local folder it plays my movie theater intro clip skips coming attractions intro & outro, & then jumps to audio then plays the film. No tv tunes installed. If you want a debug let me know & i'll pastebin it.

xbmc Git:20111020 & C.E. 2.0.53


- giftie - 2011-10-25

The ability of playing streamed trailers after a video is still broken(internal bug in XBMC)

The other problem I would need the debug log.

buges Wrote:unfortunately Apple movie trailers lite still not streaming (just hangs). If i select trailers from local folder it plays my movie theater intro clip skips coming attractions intro & outro, & then jumps to audio then plays the film. No tv tunes installed. If you want a debug let me know & i'll pastebin it.

xbmc Git:20111020 & C.E. 2.0.53



- m0v1em4n - 2011-10-26

giftie Wrote:Here are some new test versions...

Dharma Version 1.0.53 -> http://www.mediafire.com/file/6r7d1pqnfeib7xx/script.cinema.experience.1.0.53.zip
Eden Version 2.0.53 -> http://www.mediafire.com/file/3s3l2g3pvmenk02/script.cinema.experience.2.0.53.zip

They have both been tested. Keep in mind with anything the deal with Eden -> Eden is still in development, changing every day! The script may or may not work for all flavors of Eden(also if the script freezes up XBMC try disabling TV Tunes)

Hi Giftie,

is the above correct, The last pre-Eden version i installed was 1.0.51, but in the above the pre-Eden version is 2.0.53 seem like a big jump Smile

just wanted to clarify


- giftie - 2011-10-26

I'm just keeping flow with what XBMC Dev want, a full revision number separating Dharma Versions and Eden Versions(ie 1.x.x is a Dharma Version, 2.x.x is a Eden Version), even though this script is not on the Official Repo.

Version 1.0.51 was a combination Dharma/Eden that actually did not work on Dharma.. There is enough changes in XBMC to warrant the two to be separate.


- m0v1em4n - 2011-10-26

Thanks Giftie


- Invincer - 2011-10-29

Hey guys,

Could someone who has the home automation scripts working with X10 lights post exactly how they got it working. I installed Eventgfhost, the xbmcreceiver, tried looking at some of the coded info but it just isn't makingf sense. Maybe from trying to work on it with a migraine, I don't know... I have the lights working fine on X10Commander and ActiveHomePro software. I have a lamp and some spotlights on the mantle. Want the spotlights (A1) to start as the script starts with the intro, then they go out and the lamp (A2) comes on as the trivia starts. Spotlights again right before movie, then spotlights and lamp off for movie. Also would like to start a program minimized in the background that turns on the ambient reality LEDs behind the TV for the movie, but will worry about that one later after figuring out how to make the X10 stuff work.

Is it possible to program it to bring me a beer and order a pizza 10 minutes into the movie automatically?


- jitterjames - 2011-10-29

are your CE events showing up in the EventGhost log window?


- Invincer - 2011-10-29

The Eventghost part is where I am drawing a blank. The way I somewhat was reading it was create a macro with XBMC-Event.<b>CE_Automate<li>script_start</b> as command? So what goes in payload? And where would the programming go for telling it on, off, bright, dim, A2 or A1 go? Maybe thats in a later part but could find no step by step, and another confusing part is do I really put the <b> </b> in the title or somewhere else? It just feels like that should only make the middle part have bold text...

Vicadin for the head kicking in, so don't know if I explained my confusion enough or not...


- jitterjames - 2011-10-29

I also don't know if you answered my question. You implied that you ARE gettings events from Cinema Experience to show up in the eventGhost log.

If you are going to use eventGhost at all you should have a give run through of this: http://www.eventghost.org/docs/short_manual/index.html

It is a fairly intuitive program once you understand the basics of how it works.

You basically want to create macros on the right. You drag events from the log window onto the macro, and after that when the event occurs again it will trigger that macro.

I don't know if there is a plugin to actually control x10 from eventghost, but you can use its ability to run programs with commandline parameters.

Here's my macro to turn all units off
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1462">
    <Macro Name="All Units Off" Expanded="True">
        <Event Name="Broadcast.allunitsoff" />
        <Action>
            System.Execute(u'C:\\VoxCommando\\ahcmd.exe', u'sendplc a1 allunitsoff', 0, False, 2, u'')
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

You can actually copy that, and then paste it into eventghost and the macro should show up on the right hand side.

You will need ahcmd.exe which comes in the activehome sdk and you will need to modify this macro I posted to point to the correct location of your exe

I haven't read through this CE thread so I don't know if we are going over old ground here or not...


- Invincer - 2011-10-30

jitterjames: I copied your code into EventGhost and tested it after changing the code to work on mine (found different code settings at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic69976.html ). It worked IN EventGhost. I even found some other ways in EventGhost to control the A1 and A2 devices I want to control. The problem is I have been completely unable to get them to run from XBMC/Cinema Experience. Could you tell me exactly what you put on the start script line of the automation.py file to get your code to work or trigger it from XBMC? Thanks.


- jitterjames - 2011-10-30

Invincer Wrote:jitterjames: I copied your code into EventGhost and tested it after changing the code to work on mine (found different code settings at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic69976.html ). It worked IN EventGhost. I even found some other ways in EventGhost to control the A1 and A2 devices I want to control. The problem is I have been completely unable to get them to run from XBMC/Cinema Experience. Could you tell me exactly what you put on the start script line of the automation.py file to get your code to work or trigger it from XBMC? Thanks.

Sorry, hopefully someone else can help you with that. I can't get it to work either. That is why I asked you if the events were showing up in eventghost before trying to help you.


- giftie - 2011-10-30

Invincer Wrote:jitterjames: I copied your code into EventGhost and tested it after changing the code to work on mine (found different code settings at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic69976.html ). It worked IN EventGhost. I even found some other ways in EventGhost to control the A1 and A2 devices I want to control. The problem is I have been completely unable to get them to run from XBMC/Cinema Experience. Could you tell me exactly what you put on the start script line of the automation.py file to get your code to work or trigger it from XBMC? Thanks.

Have you read post #1281 in this thread? It should get you communicating between the script and EventGhost.