(2014-03-10, 10:28)flarc Wrote: Hello, thanks for your helps.

1) Ok, so currently, my settings.xml is like this:

Code:

<setting id="player_pauses" value="C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.bat" />

And the "huelight_high.bat" is like that:

Code:

@echo off
c:
cd C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin
curl http://192.168.1.21/api/newdeveloper/lights/1/state -X PUT -d "{\"on\":true, \"bri\":228}" >> NUL

This works, but i see a brief console window appear.

2) I tried also this (xml manually edited because .vbs is not displayed in xbmc add-on configuration screen):

settings.xml:

Code:

<setting id="player_pauses" value="C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.vbs" />

huelight_high.vbs:

Code:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = "C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.bat"
Return = WshShell.Run(cmd, 0, True)
set WshShell = Nothing

The huelight_high.bat is unchanged.

If i run manually the vbs, it works without console appearing.
But within XBMC, the command is not performed (which i can see only due to no change of light)

Does not work either with:
settings.xml:

Code:

<setting id="player_pauses" value="wscript C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.vbs" />

3) I also tried compiling the .bat into .exe, and updating accordingly the settings.xml, but does not work either.

Code:

<setting id="player_pauses" value="C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.exe" />

4) I did not try yet to put directly the long curl command into the settings.xml (i need to see how to manage the quotes within the command).

5) Last thing i would try (but i do not know yet how to do it) is calling directly a python script (that would be interpreted by xbmc's own python lib) to change hue lights.

If you have an idea to make option#1 or #2 work, it would be helpful, because i would prefer those ways of doing it. But if option#5 would work, i will take it.

(2014-03-10, 18:00)KenV99 Wrote: The way the plugin is currently written, it does not parse the string 'wscript C:\..\huelight_high.vbs' into two separate arguments to be passed to subprocess.call().
And that python call needs the 'wscript' argument to be passed because it is being called without the shell=true option.
If I have time I might fork the master branch and come up with a way to parameterize the strings for interpretation. Something along the lines of enclosing each individual parameter in curly brackets and then have the script parse them into a tuple that can be passed in subprocess.call().

Maybe pilluli can weigh in at some point...

(2014-03-12, 23:28)wolfgr Wrote: hello,i have no programing skills at all,i just want a script to make http request like "http://192.168.1.120/?button2on".
What is the easiest way to do it?Thank you.

EDIT: got it,i have 2 scripts ,lightson.py and lightsoff.py,when i run them they work fine,but from within the addon dont work.
my settings:

Code:

<settings>
    <setting id="db_update" value="" />
    <setting id="idle_time" value="10" />
    <setting id="player_pauses" value="C:\Python33\lightson.py" />
    <setting id="player_resumes" value="C:\Python33\lightsoff.py" />
    <setting id="player_starts" value="C:\Python33\lightsoff.py" />
    <setting id="player_stops" value="C:\Python33\lightson.py" />
    <setting id="screensaver_starts" value="" />
    <setting id="screensaver_stops" value="" />
    <setting id="xbmc_idle" value="" />
    <setting id="xbmc_starts" value="" />
</settings>

what am i doing wrong?
tested both frodo and gotham ,win8.1

(2014-03-13, 14:57)wolfgr Wrote: xbmc log doent shows anything relevant...
my scripts are lights on

Code:

import os
import time
import sys
import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlopen("http://192.168.1.120/?button2on").read()

and lights off

Code:

import os
import time
import sys
import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlopen("http://192.168.1.120/?button2off").read()

i have instaled Python 33 and scripts are working in windows.
I just cant make them work inside xbmc.

Edit: got them to work inside xbmc,run when execute from file manager just fine(i removed "request").
But still nothing works from the addon...

(2014-03-13, 20:06)wolfgr Wrote: tested all solutions....scripts and .bat files are working outside addon,with the addon i get crasses,python.exe has stoped working messages and syntax errors. ....i give up

(2014-03-10, 22:06)KenV99 Wrote: I created a fork: https://github.com/KenV99/service.xbmc.callbacks
This OPTIONALLY allows for individual commands and/or arguments to be enclosed by curly brackets in the settings.xml file.
These will then be parsed and passed when subprocess.call is invoked.
For example for 'wscript c:\test.vbs' at the command line, the xml should have '{wscript}{c:\test.vbs}'.
Or more precisely, using the example from flarc the full line in the xml file would be:

Code:

<setting id="player_pauses" value="{wscript}{C:\sarah\plugins\fred\bin\huelight_high.vbs}" />

I have only tested this in windows and with my limited knowledge of other OS's I'm not sure if the curly brackets are going to cause issues if they are commonly used by the shell/command line.
Let me know if this works and/or causes problems for anyone.

Thanks again to pilluli for the original script/code.