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Does XBMC. functions work? - FlyveHest - 2007-05-21
Hi All,
I'm a complete XBMC script newbie, but have been scripting in a lot of other applications before (mostly mIRC)
Anyway, the problem is, I want to make a shutdown timer script, that can put XBMC to sleep after a certain amount of time.
Looking through the documentation, it would seem like using XBMC.AlarmClock with XBMC.ShutDown() as a parameter would solve this nicely, but I can't seem to get anything from XBMC to work at all.
I have tried copying some code from other scripts, and they run fine, so its not my XBMC install thats not working. (Which, btw, is the T3CH distribution from 2007-05-14)
A very simple test i've tried getting to run, and which simply will not
Code:
import xbmc
def Main():
xbmc.Notification('Test','Test')
Main()Can anyone explain why this doesnt work?
To get to do what I want (shutting down), i'm guessing the code should look something like this
Code:
import xbmc
def Main():
xbmc.AlarmClock('shutdowntimer',xbmc.ShutDown())
Main()Which, according to the docs, should prompt for the time in minutes before running the command.
A small addendum, if i just use xbmc.ShutDown() the XBox shuts down fine, when the script is run.
- jmarshall - 2007-05-22
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?search=executebuiltin&go=Go
indicates that you should use:
xbmc.executebuilting("xbmc.alarmclock(etc. etc.)")
Cheers,
Jonathan
- FlyveHest - 2007-05-22
Ahh, hmm, i'm pretty sure I tried something like that, but i'll give it a go later on.
Anyway, I also discovered that if you press down/up when you are on the shutdown icon, you can to a timed shutdown, which is exactly what I want, so I don't actually need to script it myself
