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Can anyone describe the difference between the "EventServer" that use port 9777, and connecting to XBMC with WebSocket on the port i set in xbmc webcontrol settings?
also when trying to connect to xbmc with android app yatze i get prompted for userid and password. but with websockets i can connect and controll xbmc fine without password. anyone know why?
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2014-08-19, 09:24
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-19, 09:26 by topfs2.)
Its two completely seperate protocols. The EventServer uses our own UDP protocol wereas the websocket one uses JSON-RPC with our selfmade API ontop.
The EventServer is similar to what an IR blaster does, everything is fire and forget, great for remotes. Its quick with low latency.
JSON-RPC is a bi-directional transport, so you can ask XBMC stuff and get responses. Also get notifications when something changes in XBMC. But its TCP, so its "slower". But in general its negligable.
So they partly serve different purposes but in most cases I'd recomend using the json-rpc (but I'm biased)
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