[torianironfist]

My XBMC setup is in my basement. I often find when watching a movie or listening to music that I cannot hear the doorbell. So, I set out to fix this issue. I have built a doorbell from a RasPi which works perfectly and can send a signal to my XBMC machine (running on ubuntu 12.10). I want XBMC to

• Pause what is playing
  
• Display a notification
  
• Play a doorbell sound
  

I wrote the script and the first two are fairly easy. I have been having problems playing the sound. I cannot find anyway to play the sound effect without stopping whatever is currently playing.

I have written a fairly messy workaround which

• Grabs the current position of what is playing
  
• Stops playback
  
• Plays the doorbell sound effect
  
• Reopens the previous item
  
• Sets the position to where it was before
  
• And pauses it so I can go to the door
  

This is hardly ideal though. The screen jumps back to the menu after playback is stopped and then when it reopens it is at a black screen because it hasn't yet played a frame. I would much prefer a way to play a sound effect once playback has been paused. Maybe the same way the menu clicks work?

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

[Nuka1195]

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs...l#-playSFX

Does that interrupt your playback?

[torianironfist]

I can't believe I missed that. It looks perfect. I will try it this evening.

Thank you very much.

[Nuka1195]

Keep in mind it use to only support certain wav files. That may have changed.