2009-11-16, 01:51
I created an article so that will fully reset usb devices upon resume from standby. Please review for accuracy. http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Automatic_li...ume_script
Thanks to l.capriotti
Thanks to l.capriotti
Thanks for this old post which has at least pointed me in the right direction!
Motivation: I've got a rather unusual setup where the IR receiver is not directly connected to the media center PC. Instead it connects to my main computer using lircd --connect=host[:port] where the receiver is connected to (and lircd is running as well). So the media center gets the commands from the network. Waking up the media center is done by a WOL script on the main computer. This is working fine, but often (not always) the LIRC connection gets broken. So I was searching for a way to restart the LIRC connection within XBMC and came across this post.
The problem: This is not working anymore in 2014 because they removed the HTTP interface. The only way to control XBMC from outside seems to be the JSON-RPC interface now. But this interface does not provide the LIRC.Stop and LIRC.Start commands I need. It seems not even possible to make XBMC run some Python script.
My solution: After long research of the mechanisms to control XBMC from outside the only way for me to go was to write an addon (I really didn't want to learn that
) and to call that by the Addons.ExecuteAddon method.
So here are the files:
outleradam, could you eventually refer to this massage in your article? TIA!
Motivation: I've got a rather unusual setup where the IR receiver is not directly connected to the media center PC. Instead it connects to my main computer using lircd --connect=host[:port] where the receiver is connected to (and lircd is running as well). So the media center gets the commands from the network. Waking up the media center is done by a WOL script on the main computer. This is working fine, but often (not always) the LIRC connection gets broken. So I was searching for a way to restart the LIRC connection within XBMC and came across this post.
The problem: This is not working anymore in 2014 because they removed the HTTP interface. The only way to control XBMC from outside seems to be the JSON-RPC interface now. But this interface does not provide the LIRC.Stop and LIRC.Start commands I need. It seems not even possible to make XBMC run some Python script.
My solution: After long research of the mechanisms to control XBMC from outside the only way for me to go was to write an addon (I really didn't want to learn that
) and to call that by the Addons.ExecuteAddon method.So here are the files:
- Addon to be installed in XBMC: script.module.lirc-restart-0.0.1.zip
- Shell script for invoking the addon (please adapt the variables inside): xbmc-lirc-restart.sh
outleradam, could you eventually refer to this massage in your article? TIA!
