Direct Video Menu Item

[HokiePerogi]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Is ZOMHW-2366927 the Pheonix Menu widget?

No. It is the Phoenix OSD Menu widget. I got it by running:

http://sagepc:8009/sagex/api?c=GetCurrentMenuWidget&context=0023a50000d6

when a video was playing (launch using the normal method with my remote) on my extender.

[HokiePerogi]

Originally Posted by stuckless

btw the Play() method above probably didn't work because we didn't code in support for playing Playlists

I assume that CinemaDTSthxDD is the playlist name, but I doubt the code supports looking up the playlist name.

You are correct. CinemaDTSthxDD is the playlist name. This is a bummer. Guess I need to rely on the sagex api's instead for now.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by HokiePerogi

You are correct. CinemaDTSthxDD is the playlist name. This is a bummer. Guess I need to rely on the sagex api's instead for now.

Someday I'll get back into Phoenix again... and fix up some of these issues

Now, if you know any scripting (ie javascripting) you can create your own sagex apis to do more complex stuff. And using the javascript apis you'd have complete access to the sagetv environment.

[HokiePerogi]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Someday I'll get back into Phoenix again... and fix up some of these issues

Now, if you know any scripting (ie javascripting) you can create your own sagex apis to do more complex stuff. And using the javascript apis you'd have complete access to the sagetv environment.

So, if I read into what you are saying, both the unable to play playlists using the play api call and Sage not returning to the Phoenix menus after playing a playlist via the sagex api call are bugs in Phoenix?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by HokiePerogi

So, if I read into what you are saying, both the unable to play playlists using the play api call and Sage not returning to the Phoenix menus after playing a playlist via the sagex api call are bugs in Phoenix?

I think that Phoenix's inablility to play a Playlist is a missing feature. It's not really a bug, since I don't think it was ever thought to do it.

As for the scripting, it just another means to do more complex stuff that you can't always do using URL's.

[Fuzzy]

Currently, because EvaluateExpression is exposed via the URLs, you CAN do pretty much everything that way... it is a little cumbersome, but i was able to 'script' the above into a text file of URLS, and pass them to wget --spider -i [FILENAME]. Works for creating a playlist, starting it, switching to the OSD, and then removing the playlist (it can be removed after it is playing back without affecting it's playback - presumably it is coppied into a now playing playlist for operation). I'm seeing this as a decent start for being able to launch the theater promo vids prior to the actual movie - and be able to automate the process - choose a mediafileID, and have it play it WITH previews relatively seamlessly.

[Fuzzy]

I did submit a couple issues on the google code page. One for the inability to handle some URL encoded characters, like " (not all that critical), another for the lack of a widget: prefix - a relatively easy addition to the helper class using FindWidgetBySymbol(UID).

If/when you get back into the coding mood.

[HokiePerogi]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I did submit a couple issues on the google code page. One for the inability to handle some URL encoded characters, like " (not all that critical), another for the lack of a widget: prefix - a relatively easy addition to the helper class using FindWidgetBySymbol(UID).

If/when you get back into the coding mood.

Thanks for filing those Fuzzy.

Okay...next question. I'm almost done, I swear. I'd like to get certain video playlists to playback in random order and repeat until stopped. I'm trying to figure out the proper playlist property name to update, so I run:

http://sagepc:8009/sagex/api?c=GetPlaylistProperties&1=playlist:CinemaDTSthxDD

However, all I get back is an empty result set. I get the same behavior using the evaluateexpress method too. Perhaps the sagex was never coded to serialize the properties object that is returned? Or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for all the help thus far!