| MediaPortal: 1.2.2.0 | -- | |
| Moving Pictures: 1.3.0.1344 | -- | http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/downloads/list |
| TV-Series 3.1.3.1888 | -- | (special use this .dll http://db.tt/DI2pNGTe) |
| WifiRemote: 0.6.0.0 | -- | http://code.google.com/p/wifiremote/downloads/list |
-I have to start Mediaportal first and than launch VC because else the program keeps saying; "connecting" Is this a bug that will be solved in a next release? When I run VC first I am able to give the commando; "Open Mediaportal" but I can't do anything else inside it.. I would like to see that it doesn't matter wich program will be launched first.. I want to let VC startup with windows..Yes this is a bug, but the solution is not yet obvious to me. I am working on it. It is at or near the top of my list of priorities. For now, in case it makes life a bit easier you can use File >
-After the first time I installed this software I was not able to give keyboard emu's.. When I go to "Groups" and activate the "Keyboard emu (local PC only)" the program did recognized my commants like "Go up" but it deactivate the program immediately (goes to red state). What I had to do was to go to "Edit" and Enable "Keyboard emu (local PC only)". What's the reason for this?I'm confused by this. What version are you using? In the latest test (version 0.936) the standard configuration for MediaPortal does not include Keyboard emulation commands at all.
WifiRemote: 0.6.0.0
Is this correct? I believe the latest is still 0.5, cant find a 0.6 on the forum or in the plugin installer
just an oversight. I did a million different thing in the last week to the program code, the plugin code, the configuration, documentation, testing etc... a few things slipped by. The standard config will be cleaned up as we go forward. There are two types of users for MP, ones who use VC on the same computer (keyboard emu will work for them) and those who use VC on a different machine from MediaPortal - they would need to use different commands for arrows and scrolling. Only one type can have the default config that suits them, and the other will need to make some minor adjustments.
-About the keyboard thing; my mistake.. I have added it myself from the original VC into the voicecommands.xml file for the compiled Mediaportal version because I saw that it was missing.. After doing that I had to go into the settings menu en enabled it from there.. Everything is working.. May I ask why you didn't included those keyboard commands allready?
-Ontorher thing I want to report is that when I launch this version (0.936) it's in red state by default (so I have to select the green one myself..) With the original version of VC (0.921) It's automaticly green, like it should be I think.. Is this a bug?it's not a bug, but it should not be part of the final configuration. It's something I left in by mistake from my testing and editing setup. The "VC.Loaded" is assigned to the "Vox Off" command. You just need to delete the event from the command.
understandable. no problem. :D
-About the rest of my questions, I will focus on the Wiki.. I'm sory, I had to do that first.. It was my enthousiasm that overruled me a bit and I would have those answers asap, hihi.. Thanks for the answers so far...
Yes It's right, you can download the newest version at here: http://code.google.com/p/wifiremote/downloads/list
I don't know why it is not added yet to the MPE installer..
So you mean it will only allow me to spell things? Like "G-A N-A-A-R F-I-L-M-S" What means; "Browse movies"? I would like to see an option where you can set a commando to the things you say.. So you can learn the program than when I say: "Ga naar films" he knows that he has to do the same thing as for; "Browse movies"
But this is not possible?
Another question about this: How do I change the command tree?
Are you or other developars of VC planning a Dutch engine for the future?
thanks I was not aware of that. I believe I have the solution though so it will be in 0937 which I will release within the next day or two.
although I think when you way "working" you mean "not working" and when you say "plugins" you mean "configurations"
Allright, last question for today.. After that I will do some more tests and report than..I'm not sure.
I have one strange problem on my HTPC..
I have tested this software (as always) on my Game machine.. (with has also latest version of Mediaportal installed)
I was able to run movies fine with VC enabled..
I have tried it also on my HTPC but there is a strange behavior.. When I launh a movie (by hand or by voice) the movie stopped inmidietly.. This only happend when VC is enabled.. When I exit VC, start Mediaportal and start the movie, everything is fine..
And to make it even more complicated, it only happend with HD movies!! (90% of my collection) Only SD files like .avi are running fine.. But when I launch a 1080P .mkv file, it stops after it's running..
Do you know what it can be?
There seems to no current commands for browse music/artist/genre etc., presumably this can be added by ourselves?
Also is it posible to jump to a certain page or xml within mediaportal, for instance MP has a lyric plugin, is it possible to add the command show lyrics and have it jump to the lyric page for current playing song?
yes and yes.
you can create a comand to open a window using the action "MpWifi.ActivateWindow" but you must know the window ID that you want to open. It also seems to be not as smooth as opening from the skin so I need to check with Shukuren if this can be fixed. (maybe it is just on my system).
to go to the playlist instead of nowplaying after requesting music:
you can replace the action "MpWifi.ShowPlaylist" with the action "MpWifi.ShowNowPlaying"
Thanks again for you reply..
Another thing.. I'm trying to add some Parses with: "MpWifi.ActivateWindow" and it works! Here is a link for most default Mediaportal ID's: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/18_Contribute/7_Skins/Skin_Architecture/Window_IDs (for other plugins use google; by example; Mediaportal Onlinevideos ID)
For some ID's it's works fine (like settings: ID 4) I can now say: "Settings" and he goes to settings.. So that's nice! But like you said, it doesn't work always nice.. When i try to do the same thing for music (ID: 511) I get a black screen and I have to go back to the home menu.
I have noticed though when using command, "play album X" it seems to start play on a random track rather than starting at the 1st track, is this normal, as far as I know I have no shuffle options enabled, when selecting an album to play with remote it starts from track 1.
yes it is very easy to change.
if you edit the command you will see the action MpWifi.RequestMusicBySQL has a parameter is this:
strAlbum like '%{1}%' order by random() limit 100
just change it to :
strAlbum like '{1}' order by iTrack
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm going to make this the standard for request album in the next release too. And I'll have it go to nowplaying in stead of plalist
I like to have a request for artist or playlist come up as random and show the playlist (as the default) but you can change that too!
I think this might fix the activateWindow issues. But I haven't tested too much yet, so maybe you can help me. Let me know if it works well for you so I can recommend to the WifiRemote team to implement my changes in the official version.
http://db.tt/fC0YrwU5
unrar and put replace the dll in your MP process folder. On my system it is found here :
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\process
with the current version you need to have MP running first. If you have connection problems, restart VC and it should connect right away.
I'm working on a fix for that. Sorry.
The folks at MpWifi don't seem to be too interested at the moment. I guess they have other stuff they are working on and I suspect their couch potato app isn't really using these features yet so it doesn't affect them directly.
It's frustrating because we are so close! I'm not too sure where to file an error report for MediaPortal but I'll take a look and if I do I'll post a link here for sure.
James, this is a bit unfair, don't you think so? As I can read in the issue tracker, they are answering to your questions and trying to help you, so I don't understand why you have said this :S Perhaps you can jump to #mp-extended in freenode and talk directly to DieBagger as he was the man who developed the parameter launcher stuff for MediaPortal. I'm sure that you will able to fix the issue quickly, so be a bit more patient please ;)
I think you are misreading my tone. I am not trying to bash the folks over at WifiRemote. Sorry if I did not chose my words carefully enough. They don't seem to have tested these commands, and have not proposed any possible solutions. I am assuming that this is because their app doesn't use it. I am not saying that they are bad people or anything. Without their plugin there would be no support for MediaPortal in VoxCommando at all.
I am pretty sure that the bug is in MediaPortal itself, but there might be a way to get around it as I did in the calls that don't require a load parameter.
The start with Windows is a VoxCommando bug, not specific to MP and I have what I think is a working fix. It will be in the next release, as soon as I tie up a few loose ends.