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I have created an improved network manager addon which generates a listing of available wifi connections,

Currently it is using the container 53 view. I would like it to utilize a custom window I have created custom_network.xml

Is there a way to have the addon utilize a window I have previously created (custom_network.xml)

I cannot find any reference of how to point the addon to this when generating a listing (listing code below)

The code is envoked via the default.py script within the addon directory.

PHP Code:
def GENERATE_LISTING():


        global wifi_string
        global active_wifi
        
        active_wifi = 'None'

        proc = Popen("nmcli dev wifi",shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
        ethernet_mask = my_addon.getSetting('ethernet.mask')
        listing = []

        for line in proc.stdout:
                try:

                        scan_secure = "secure"
                        scan_connect = "no"

                        scan_essid   = line.rsplit("'")[1]
                        scan_signal  = line.rsplit("'")[2].rsplit()[6]
                        if line.rsplit("'")[2].rsplit()[-2] == "--" : scan_secure = "open"
                        if line.rsplit("'")[2].rsplit()[-1] == "yes" : scan_connect = "connected"

                        listing.append(scan_essid + "," + scan_signal + "," + scan_secure + "," + scan_connect)

                except IndexError:
                    pass


        #show the correct icon
        for item in listing:
                supress = False
                if (device_name in item.rsplit(",")[0] or "mediabadger" in item.rsplit(",")[0]) and "NetConnect" not in item.rsplit(",")[0]: supress = True
                wifi_image = 'wifi_0'
                sort_filter = 105 - int(item.rsplit(',')[1])
                if int(item.rsplit(',')[1]) >  0  : wifi_image='wifi_25'
                if int(item.rsplit(',')[1]) >  24 : wifi_image='wifi_50'
                if int(item.rsplit(',')[1]) >  49 : wifi_image='wifi_75'
                if int(item.rsplit(',')[1]) >  75 : wifi_image='wifi_100'

                if str(item.rsplit(',')[3]) == "connected": sort_filter = "1"
                if str(item.split(',')[2]) == "secure"    : wifi_image = wifi_image + "l"
                if str(item.split(',')[3]) == "connected" : wifi_image = wifi_image + "c"
                if str(item.split(',')[3]) == "connected" : active_wifi = item.rsplit(",")[0]
                wifi_image = wifi_image + ".png"

                #build an ethernet port image for the netdongle
                if ("MediaBadger NetConnect" in item.rsplit(",")[0]):
                    wifi_image = 'wifi_eth'
                    if str(item.rsplit(',')[3]) == "connected": sort_filter = "1"
                    if str(item.split(',')[3]) == "connected": wifi_image = wifi_image + "c"
                    wifi_image = wifi_image + ".png"


                #now build the list
                url = BUILD_URL({'SSID': item.rsplit(',')[0], 'ACTIVE': active_wifi})
                li = xbmcgui.ListItem(item.rsplit(',')[0], iconImage=wifi_image, thumbnailImage=wifi_image)

                li.addContextMenuItems([ ('Refresh', 'Container.Refresh') ] , replaceItems=True)
                li.setInfo('video', {'director': "Something sexy", 'tracknumber': sort_filter, 'title': item.rsplit(',')[0] })
                xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle,xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_TRACKNUM)

                if not supress: xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=url, listitem=li, isFolder=True)

        #build ethernet port (only when not supressed)
        if ethernet_mask == 'false' :

                if not subprocess.call("ifconfig eth0  |grep 'inet add'",shell=True, stdin=None, stderr=None, stdout=None):
                        wifi_image = 'wifi_ethc.png'
                else:
                        wifi_image = 'wifi_eth.png'

                url = BUILD_URL({'SSID': 'Ethernet'})
                li = xbmcgui.ListItem('Ethernet', iconImage=wifi_image, thumbnailImage=wifi_image)

                li.addContextMenuItems([ ('Refresh', 'Container.Refresh') ] , replaceItems=True)
                li.setInfo('video', {'director': "Something sexy", 'tracknumber': 2, 'title': 'Ethernet' })
                xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle,xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_TRACKNUM)
                xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=url, listitem=li, isFolder=True)
        
        #build refresh button
        wifi_image = 'wifi_broadcast.png'
        url = BUILD_URL({'SSID': 'Broadcast'})
        li = xbmcgui.ListItem('Re-broadcast Services', iconImage=wifi_image, thumbnailImage=wifi_image)
        li.setInfo('video', {'director': "Something sexy", 'tracknumber': 0, 'title': 'Re-broadcast Services' })        
        xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle,xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_TRACKNUM)
        xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=url, listitem=li, isFolder=True)  
  
        #build broadcast button
        wifi_image = 'wifi_refresh.png'
        url = BUILD_URL({'SSID': 'Refresh Connections'})
        li = xbmcgui.ListItem('Refresh Connections', iconImage=wifi_image, thumbnailImage=wifi_image)
        li.setInfo('video', {'director': "Something sexy", 'tracknumber': 0, 'title': 'Refresh' })
        xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle,xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_TRACKNUM)
        xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=url, listitem=li, isFolder=True) 
     
     
        xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle) 

Thanks

that's not possible.

the addon is written as a plugin and plugins can't use their own xml window.
they depend on whatever views are already available in the skin.

only script type addons can ship with their own custom window.

Hi Ronie,

Thanks for the response, that is a pain.

Forgive my ignorance, can you point me towards the info on this? I can't locate anything specific.

(Namely on how to generate a script based addon)

you could "embed" your plugin content into any custom xml by using <content>plugin://..</content> (Sortmethods, contextmenu and probably some other stuff wont work this way though)

OK will give that a go. Thanks for the help.

Having just spent several hours trying to get xbmcgui add control methods to work, I am not going to re-engineer all this work.

if this works great otherwise, sod it Wink

catkinso

ronie

catkinso

phil65

catkinso