[robwebset]

Hi, First off thanks very much for this plugin. I moved into a new flat and wanted to do multiroom audio. Sonos is ridiculously expensive and completely closed, now witha couple or RPis and an additional XBMC connected to my avr I get great sound everywhere

The add on has been working flawlessly for me, and I got sync between a miniatx machine and the Rpis to works great (just by changing the start delay)

One issue I do have is that I have set my mediacenter to go to standby after 20 min. since you are using an external player with the addon, when your extension is launched xbmc thinks its idle, and goes to standby after 20 min. Some people have reported the same behavior with screensavers. in this thread but I wasn't able to find a solution for this.

I saw you asked a question relating to this here
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=98408

have you been able to find a solution for this ? I was trying to set screens that would be exceptions to the xbmc timer, but didn't find info on that.

I'm afraid not. You might want to ask @rob_webset who is working pretty actively on these sorts of things for his Sonos addon that is fairly similar to this (although I don't think it does playback). If he has a solution I can integrate it, but every time I messed with the screensaver it caused crashes/hangs.

Might also be worth asking team xbmc about this, in the feature requests section I guess.

If you get some ideas/traction somewhere I can have a look at it.

Other than that, glad you like it!

Hi bossanova808,

I just stumbled accross this one, in case it is of any interest, I sort of hack around it. As I know that the Sonos display screen does not have any controls that make use of the context menu, I just periodically open the context menu (So the user seens nothing, and XBMC sees it as "User Actions"), so just something like this:

Code:

# A bit of a hack, but we need XBMC to think a user is "doing things" so
# that it does not start the screensaver, so we just send the message
# to open the Context menu - which in our case will do nothing
# but it does make XBMC think the user has done something
json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Input.ContextMenu", "id": 1}')

I already have a loop that checks for changes so that the screen can be updated, so it is just a step in there (About every 40 seconds)

Hope this helps

Rob