[robwebset]

Hi All,

I have been hunting around the forums and have failed to find an upto date answer.

I would like to find out, from a python script add-on, what the current setting of the screensaver "delay time" (i.e. how long to have inactivity before coming on). I found an old post that showed:

Code:

screensavertime = xbmc.executehttpapi( "GetGUISetting(0;screensaver.time)" ).replace( "<li>", "" )

But the xbmc.executehttpapi interface has been deprecated.

I have searched the JSON interface, thought it might be in "GUI.GetProperties" but it doesn't appear so.

Does anyone have any idea how I can find out this value? (I don't want to change it - just want to know it)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Thanks, Rob

[ronie]

i'm pretty sure it's just not possible.

[Martijn]

as already stated in the other thread

at least not without ugly hacking which would disallow you from adding it to repo

[robwebset]

as already stated in the other thread

at least not without ugly hacking which would disallow you from adding it to repo

The other thread:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174621

Was asking about how to detect when the screensaver is about to start.

This question was different - it was about how to find out a property of the screensaver (looking up what was in the settings) regardless of it currently running or not.

Shame it was something that we used to be able to check, and we lost that facility :-(

[Martijn]

questions where asked what was missing from the JSON-RPC long ago and almost no response, then httpapi was killed and people came crying.

all i can say is too bad, they were warned but did nothing

[robwebset]

In case anyone doing searches stumbles accross this thread, I have raised a request for this to be added to Gotham:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174850

[Tolriq]

questions where asked what was missing from the JSON-RPC long ago and almost no response, then httpapi was killed and people came crying.

all i can say is too bad, they were warned but did nothing

Well I'll just let you read again all the JSON forum and all requests that where made
Last time this was said I had linked lot of missing asked stuff but no answer

So I'm sorry but yes HTTP removal is good but don't say we did not ask for things and well the minimal organisation to have more coders on the JSON part even for Gotham was not possible
(http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=166398 as a reminder )