Nick8888 Wrote:I'm currently trying to make the xbmc web interface available from my domain through an apache server. I've been successful in doing this for other programs such as sabnzbd, sick-beard, tvheadend, transmission and couchpotato.

Using the following code to set up a virtual host in apache

Code:

ProxyRequests Off

ProxyPass /xbmc/ http://localhost:8080/

<Proxy *>
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPassReverse /xbmc/ /

I am able to access it at http://mydomain.com/xbmc/ (css and all) however I am unable to browse any of my content (movies, music etc) as the json calls must not be going to the right location or something. The same behaviour occurs when using the Xbmc Web Media Manager (XWMM) package as well.

Just wondering if you've had any success in achieving the json-rpc to work behind apache, if not I'll wait until development has finished before I request support.

EDIT: Okay I did a bit of mucking around and found I need to change all references to "/jsonrpc" to "/xbmc/jsonrpc/" any chance of a urlbase setting or something along those lines?

Quote:29/08/10 18:29:03 - Response: {
"end": 1,
"movies": [
{
"file": "videodb://1/7/1/",
"label": "The Fast and the Furious",
"thumbnail": "special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/c/c755305d.tbn"
}
],
"start": 0,
"total": 1
}

jonib Wrote:Hi, I'm working on my XBMCRepeat plugin for EventGhost.

I started to add some more functionality using the HTTP API, but as that is going away I'm trying this newfangled JSON-RPC.

I have gotten same stuff working, but now I'm stuck (hopefully its nothing embarrassing).

So I'm trying to use VideoPlaylist.Add to add a video file to the playlist in XBMC (Dharma Beta1)
The below command adds the "e:\test.avi" to the playlist and works, but there is no text, only an empty(blank) line when looking in the "Now playing" window.

Code:

{"params": {"file": "E:\\test.avi"}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoPlaylist.Add", "id": 1}

The below is the result from VideoPlaylist.GetItems:

Code:

{
  "file" : "E:\\test.avi",
  "label" : "",
  "thumbnail" : "special://home/userdata/Thumbnails/Video/4/auto-455227d7.tbn"
}

So I figured I need to add a Label so I tried the below:

Code:

{"params": {"file": "E:\\test.avi", "label": "Test"}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoPlaylist.Add", "id": 1}

Still works but still no label

So can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? and/or point me to some more reading material about the parameter syntax.

jonib

Malard Wrote:Try using the webinterface branch,

Quote:instead of adding things by path, add them by database id. Ideally all items should exist within the library.

SGulseth Wrote:Hello all, I'm kinda new to this forum but I have been using XBMC for a few weeks now. I have started on a dedicated XBMC Jsonrpc class for php, but I can't figure out why it does not work 100%. My problem is that 9 out of 10 times my connection times out and in the log it says just:
"14:50:50 T:140333434550032 M:3258880000 NOTICE: WebServer: POST | /jsonrpc"
When it works I get a reponse after < 1 second and when it fails it loads for ~10 seconds.

Here is my code:

PHP Code:

class xbmcRPC {
    public function getMovie( $ids = array( ), $params = array( ) )
    {
        if ( !is_array( $ids ) ) $ids = array( $ids );
        
        $movies = $this->request("VideoLibrary.GetMovies", $params);
                
        if(!empty($ids)) // Get movies in $ids
        {
            $return = array();
            foreach($movies["result"]["movies"] AS $movie)
                if(in_array($movie["id"], $ids))
                    $return = movie;
            if(count($return)>0)
                return $return;
            else
                return array("error" => "Movie not found");
        } // Get all movies
        else    
            return $movies["result"]["movies"];
    }
    protected function request( $method, $params = array( ) )
    {
        $this->id++;
        $data = array("jsonrpc" => "2.0","method" => $method, "id" => $this->id);
        
        if(count($params) > 0)
            $data["params"] = $params;
            
        $data = json_encode( $data );
        $opts = array( 'http' => array('user_agent'  => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'timeout' => '5','ignore_errors' => true,'method' => 'POST','content' => $data,'header' => 'Content-type: application/json'."\r\n"));
        
        if ( $this->username && $this->password )
            $opts['http']['header'] .= sprintf( "Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode( $this->username.':'.$this->password ) );
            
        $stream = stream_context_create( $opts );
        
        if ( $fp = fopen( $this->url, 'r', false, $stream ) ) {
            $response = '';
            while( $row = fgets( $fp ) ) {
                $response.= trim( $row )."\n";
            }
        }
        
        $stream_meta = stream_get_meta_data( $fp );
        fclose( $fp );
        
        if(!$fp)
            throw new xbmcRPCException( 'Unable to establish a connection to '. $this->url);
        else if( $stream_meta['timed_out'] )
            throw new xbmcRPCException( "Timed out connecting to " . $this->url);
        else if( substr( $stream_meta['wrapper_data'][0], 9, 3 ) == "401" )
            throw new xbmcRPCException( "Invalid username/password.");
        
                
        return json_decode( $response, true );
    }
    public function __construct($url = 'http://localhost:8080', $username = "xbmc", $password = null)
    {
        $this->url = $url;
        $this->username = $username;
        $this->password = $password;
        
        ini_set ('user_agent', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); 
    }
}
class xbmcRPCException extends Exception {
    public function __construct( $message = null, $code = 0, Exception $previous = null )
    {
        parent::__construct( $message, $code );
    }
}