[javlinmartin]

Hey Guys,

I'm building a UPNP client and I'm trying to get it working with XBMC. My client uses the UPNP search command.

Any time I try to use the command and pass in a "ContainerID" with XBMC it's returning me all the files on the entire system.

Here's a snippit from the search:

<ContainerID xsi:type="xsdtring" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">videodb://2/2/2</ContainerID>\n
<SearchCriteria xsi:type="xsdtring" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">(upnp:class=object.item.videoItem)</SearchCriteria>\n

What it returns:

All the video files from the whole media server.

What I would expect:

All the video files located within the videodb://2/2/2 folder and sub-folders.

Side Note:

If I pass in * for the search query, then it works properly and only returns items within the videodb://2/2/2 folder, but it only returns images.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[Montellese]

AFAIK Search is not properly implemented in our UPnP MediaServer implementation yet. Partial support for it has been added in a proof-of-concept code and will probably make its way into one of the next releases (but not Gotham).

PS: videodb://2/2/2 is an outdated path and shouldn't be used anymore with the coming Gotham release. The new path would be videodb://tvshows/titles/2. Furthermore I'm not sure if a search for specific media types make sense with these paths as each of these paths only contains one kind of media type.

[javlinmartin]

Hi Montellese,

I was afraid that the UPNP search wasn't fully implemented. As for the "videodb" path, I actually determine that path through the UPNP "browse" command, so if you guys are updating it, that should not be a problem.

Out of curiosity are there any other API's that XBMC offers that will allow me to get all video items (including sub-folders) within a given path?

If not, then I'll revamp my application to only use BROWSE when XBMC is detected.

[Montellese]

Not that I know of right now. JSON-RPC only supports getting movies, tvshows, episodes etc but you can't filter based on videodb:// paths. It has extensive filtering support but for directory structure only on real paths. But if you are looking for all movies or all tvshows, JSON-RPC can do that.

[javlinmartin]

Thanks Montellese - you've saved me hours of debugging / investigation with your quick replies!