[Montellese]

Yup that looks right but you don't need the "+" between "Auto Library Updater". The URL-encoding will take care of that. If you want a response, you need to add

Code:

, "id": 1

after

Code:

"params": { ... }

i.e.

Code:

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "GUI.ShowNotification", "params": { "string": "Auto Library Updater", "message": "Auto Library Updater" }, "id": 1 }

No "id" means no response.

[Tolriq]

Hum did not think about no id no answer.

Is there any speed advantage to not set the id when no answer is needed or it doesn't matter ?

[Montellese]

You simply safe the call to the JSON serializer (which usually takes about 1 millisecond except for huge data like JSONRPC.Introspect) and the HTTP response is smaller and therefore less data has to be transferred but in a LAN you most likely won't notice that either.

[Montellese]

Screensaver - The script displays a trivia slide show for upto 60 min's. Often users have set the screen saver to come on well before that(Mine is set to 10mins for example) Being able to disable the screensaver stops XBMC from interupting the slideshow. The script first checks to see what mode the screensaver is set to, copies it, then disables it. When the script comes to an end it restores the screensaver to it's former glory. It is also wrapped in error checking code so if the script fails it also returns the setting back, no protection against XBMC hanging or crashing.

Sounds more like a bug in XBMC to me. IMO the screensaver shouldn't kick in if a slideshow is running in XBMC like it doesn't kick in when watching a movie.

Auto Refresh
The scripts builds a playlist of videos that surround a selected Movie(gives the feel of being at a movie theatre) The videos that are available are often at different refresh rates. If the user has the auto refresh setting on, this introduces interuptions to the flow of the playlist. Disabling the refresh during everything else other than the Movie(what we are really here for) smooths out the flow. This option is controllable by the user via addon settings.

I don't know anything about auto refresh rates etc but this sounds like a general problem in XBMC as well. What kind of "interruptions" are you talking about? Does this also happen if you create a normal video playlist in XBMC with those videos?

[topfs2]

For those using wget and complains about reading being bad. I'd like to suggest using curl and just use PUT instead of GET. e.g.

Code:

curl -i -X POST -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan", "id": 1}' http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

[giftie]

Screensaver - The script displays a trivia slide show for upto 60 min's. Often users have set the screen saver to come on well before that(Mine is set to 10mins for example) Being able to disable the screensaver stops XBMC from interupting the slideshow. The script first checks to see what mode the screensaver is set to, copies it, then disables it. When the script comes to an end it restores the screensaver to it's former glory. It is also wrapped in error checking code so if the script fails it also returns the setting back, no protection against XBMC hanging or crashing.

Sounds more like a bug in XBMC to me. IMO the screensaver shouldn't kick in if a slideshow is running in XBMC like it doesn't kick in when watching a movie.

The script creates a slideshow internally(not using the XBMC Slideshow) This script has been around for a long time, when XBMC's slideshow function was not as good as it is now. I'll look into using the built in slideshow function.

Auto Refresh
The scripts builds a playlist of videos that surround a selected Movie(gives the feel of being at a movie theatre) The videos that are available are often at different refresh rates. If the user has the auto refresh setting on, this introduces interuptions to the flow of the playlist. Disabling the refresh during everything else other than the Movie(what we are really here for) smooths out the flow. This option is controllable by the user via addon settings.

I don't know anything about auto refresh rates etc but this sounds like a general problem in XBMC as well. What kind of "interruptions" are you talking about? Does this also happen if you create a normal video playlist in XBMC with those videos?

If the setting 'Adjust display refresh rate to match video' is enabled, it does this on a normal video playlist as well. The interuptions is not an aspect of XBMC to be honest, but the video display switching refresh rates(personally I have a DVDO video scaler, so I never see the interruptions.) HTTP API's access to the settings just provided me a method to satisfy user request(I don't feel bad removing it )

I also just realized that there was one more HTTP API call in the script but I know direct database access won't be added(ie using SQL calls)

[Montellese]

The script creates a slideshow internally(not using the XBMC Slideshow) This script has been around for a long time, when XBMC's slideshow function was not as good as it is now. I'll look into using the built in slideshow function.

Ah right, well XBMC's slideshow functionality is still not very good but certainly usable.

I also just realized that there was one more HTTP API call in the script but I know direct database access won't be added(ie using SQL calls)

Depending on what you want to do it's possible with JSON-RPC.

[akevit]

I have no idea where to post this as I've read quite a few threads about using curl and JSON to update your library, but I have finally figured out the command thanks to this post and a comment on Stack Overflow. I believe this is Windows curl specific but the -H switch needs to be passed specifying the content type (-H "Content-Type: application/json")

In hopes that other people with the same issue of trying to replace the old HTTP curl request for updating the video library

Code:

C:\cURL\curl.exe --get "http://xbmc:[email protected]:8082/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)"

(Rather than setup an environment variable I've just hardcoded the path)

Here is the command to do it with json:

Code:

C:\cURL\curl.exe -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"VideoLibrary.Scan\"}" http://username:password@ipaddress:port/jsonrpc

For example:

Code:

C:\cURL\curl.exe -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"VideoLibrary.Scan\"}" http://xbmc:[email protected]:8082/jsonrpc

Thank you and may Google lead others to this post.