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mattbrowno · 2013-04-28, 17:36

would anyone be able to help me set this up using teamviewer? i have the program installed and everything. I have tried tons of themes. But the cinema expereince is not working for some reason. If so message me

mattbrowno · 2013-04-28, 18:11

I have installed cinema experience on my xbmc and it just isnt working. It doesnt load the movie or play trailers when i click the cinema button. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated Big Grin

**Ragnarok** · 2013-04-28, 20:37

Did you configure the add-on and tell it where to pull trailers and get the slides and video files to play?

mattbrowno · 2013-04-28, 20:38

Yes i did all that

giftie · 2013-04-28, 23:00

(2013-04-28, 18:11)mattbrowno Wrote: I have installed cinema experience on my xbmc and it just isnt working. It doesnt load the movie or play trailers when i click the cinema button. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :D :D

The first place to start is a debug log. This will show me many things about your system, skin and script setup.

giftie · 2013-04-28, 23:00

(2013-04-28, 18:11)mattbrowno Wrote: I have installed cinema experience on my xbmc and it just isnt working. It doesnt load the movie or play trailers when i click the cinema button. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :D :D

The first place to start is a debug log. This will show me many things about your system, skin and script setup.

**Ragnarok** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-28, 23:07 by Ragnarok.)

(2013-04-28, 23:00)giftie Wrote: The first place to start is a debug log. This will show me many things about your system, skin and script setup.

I got him all taken care of giftie. No worries

phsyraxion · 2013-04-29, 08:56

I have started experimenting with this script and love it. I have everything figured out and working but just wanted to find out a little about the Home Automation part of the addon.

I know very little about Python but do know basic programming in C++ and Python doesn't seem much different. I have had a look at 2 different HA script files in this thread and the first (which I assume was an original) has comments to say "Add Code Here" where you could add the code you wanted to run. But the home_automation(2).py script which has been "cleaned up" does not have these pointers. In any event, I wanted to ask the following:

I have an ELK M1 automation system and the full SDK software for the system. It controls everything in my home (lights, fish tanks, media devices etc) and is simple to control from ASCII commands. I have created the following test script that will trigger the MESSAGE I send just fine:

Code:
# PYTHON SCRIPT TO SEND COMMANDS TO ELK M1

# VERSION: 1.0 (30 APRIL 2013)

#

# Use the M1 SDK to generate ASCII commands

# Copy the ASCII command to the MESSAGE and replace the ^ character with \r

#

import socket

M1IP = "192.168.0.251"

M1PORT = 2101

MESSAGE=b'0Ecn0030000300D4\r'

#Code Start

srvsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands

srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT))

srvsock.sendall(MESSAGE)

data = srvsock.recv(4096) 

#returns result from panel (for troubleshooting)

print ("received message:", data.decode("UTF-8"))

srvsock.close()

The Message simply pulses an output for 3 seconds as a test and works perfectly. I assume I should be able to slot the code into the automation script where I would like to trigger something and it should be able to send the command to my system?

Code:
# This module's future home should be inside userdata/addon_data/script.cinema.experience/ha_scripts

# to make sure it does not get over written when updating the script

import xbmc, xbmcaddon

import socket

M1IP = "192.168.0.251"

M1PORT = 2101

MESSAGE=b'0Ecn0030000300D4\r'

_A_ = xbmcaddon.Addon('script.cinema.experience')

_L_ = _A_.getLocalizedString

_S_ = _A_.getSetting

def activate_on( trigger = "None" ):

    """

        Scripting to trigger almost anything(HA, other scripts, etc...) when videos start.  

        Usage:

            activate_on( "Movie" )

            will trigger code that is set under the Movie heading.

    """

    if trigger == "None":

        xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - No Trigger Sent, Returning", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

        return

    xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - activate_on( %s ) Triggered" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

    # Script Start

    if trigger == _L_( 32613 ) and _S_( "ha_script_start" ) == "true": 

        xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - %s Triggered" % _L_( 32613 ), level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

        # place code below this line

        xbmc.executehttpapi( "Broadcast(<b>CE_Automate<li>script_start</b>)" )

    # Trivia Intro

    elif trigger == _L_( 32609 ) and _S_( "ha_trivia_intro" ) == "true": 

        xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - %s Triggered" % _L_( 32609 ), level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

        # place code below this line

########################################################

        srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands

        srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT))

        srvsock.sendall(MESSAGE)

########################################################

        xbmc.executehttpapi( "Broadcast(<b>CE_Automate<li>trivia_intro</b>)" )

The example above with my code between the comment lines, would that work if I wanted the event to happen on the trivia intro? I just want to be sure that what I am trying would be possible before investing time on it.

phsyraxion · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-29, 12:42 by phsyraxion.)

Tested... Doesn't work. If I add the few lines of code into the script under the #place code here part of any section, the CE script just wont run. Using the script file that came with the latest CE on Frodo I have the following:

Code:
# This module's future home should be inside userdata/addon_data/script.cinema.experience/ha_scripts

# to make sure it does not get over written when updating the script

import xbmc, xbmcaddon

import socket, sys

from threading import Thread

triggers       = sys.modules[ "__main__" ].triggers

ha_settings    = sys.modules[ "__main__" ].ha_settings

M1IP = "192.168.0.251"

M1PORT = 2101

class Automate:

    def __init__( self ):

        pass

    def activate_ha( self, trigger = None, prev_trigger = None, mode="thread" ):

        if ha_settings[ "ha_enable" ]:

            if ha_settings[ "ha_multi_trigger" ] and prev_trigger == trigger:

                pass

            elif mode != "thread":

                self.activate_on( trigger )

            else:

                thread = Thread( name='ha_trigger', target=self.activate_on, args=( trigger, ) )

                thread.start()

        return prev_trigger

    def activate_on( self, trigger = None ):

        """

            Scripting to trigger almost anything(HA, other scripts, etc...) when videos start.  

            Usage:

                activate_on( "Movie" )

                will trigger code that is set under the Movie heading.

        """

        if not trigger:

            xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - No Trigger Sent, Returning", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

            return

        xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - activate_on( %s ) Triggered" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

        if trigger in triggers:

            xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - Trigger %s" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

        # Script Start

        if trigger == "Script Start" and ha_settings[ "ha_script_start" ]: 

            # place code below this line

            pass

        # Trivia Intro

        elif trigger == "Trivia Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_intro" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

            srvsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

            srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands

            srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT))

            srvsock.sendall(b'09ct01000CF4\r')

            srvsock.close()

        # Trivia

        elif trigger == "Trivia" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_start" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Trivia Outro

        elif trigger == "Trivia Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_outro" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Movie Theatre Intro

        elif trigger == "Movie Theater Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_mte_intro" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Coming Attractions Intro

        elif trigger == "Coming Attractions Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_cav_intro" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Trailer

        elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Coming Attractions Outro

        elif trigger == "Coming Attractions Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_cav_outro" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Feature Presentation Intro

        elif trigger == "Feature Presentation Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_fpv_intro" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # MPAA Rating

        elif trigger == "MPAA Rating" and ha_settings[ "ha_mpaa_rating" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Countdown

        elif trigger == "Countdown" and ha_settings[ "ha_countdown_video" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Audio Format

        elif trigger == "Audio Format" and ha_settings[ "ha_audio_format" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Movie

        elif trigger == "Movie" and ha_settings[ "ha_movie" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Feature Presentation Outro

        elif trigger == "Feature Presentation Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_fpv_outro" ]:

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Movie Theatre Intro

        elif trigger == "Movie Theatre Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_mte_outro" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Intermission

        elif trigger == "Intermission" and ha_settings[ "ha_intermission" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Script End

        elif trigger == "Script End" and ha_settings[ "ha_script_end" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Paused

        elif trigger == "Pause" and ha_settings[ "ha_paused" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        # Resumed

        elif trigger == "Resume" and ha_settings[ "ha_resumed" ]: 

            pass

            # place code below this line

        else:

            xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - Opps. Something happened", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

http://pastebin.com/DTqgFbnn

Not really sure what I am doing but it would be good to have the commands I need in the script file.

EDIT: Seems to work when I test in the #trailers section. May have something to do with the fact I am not using the Trivia Info?

giftie · 2013-04-29, 15:02

(2013-04-29, 08:56)phsyraxion Wrote: I have started experimenting with this script and love it. I have everything figured out and working but just wanted to find out a little about the Home Automation part of the addon.

I know very little about Python but do know basic programming in C++ and Python doesn't seem much different. I have had a look at 2 different HA script files in this thread and the first (which I assume was an original) has comments to say "Add Code Here" where you could add the code you wanted to run. But the home_automation(2).py script which has been "cleaned up" does not have these pointers. In any event, I wanted to ask the following:

The home_automation(2).py script is one that was written to control EventGhost on a Windows Machine(what most were using to control their systems)

Quote:I have an ELK M1 automation system and the full SDK software for the system. It controls everything in my home (lights, fish tanks, media devices etc) and is simple to control from ASCII commands. I have created the following test script that will trigger the MESSAGE I send just fine:

Code:
# PYTHON SCRIPT TO SEND COMMANDS TO ELK M1 # VERSION: 1.0 (30 APRIL 2013) # # Use the M1 SDK to generate ASCII commands # Copy the ASCII command to the MESSAGE and replace the ^ character with \r # import socket M1IP = "192.168.0.251" M1PORT = 2101 MESSAGE=b'0Ecn0030000300D4\r' #Code Start srvsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT)) srvsock.sendall(MESSAGE) data = srvsock.recv(4096) #returns result from panel (for troubleshooting) print ("received message:", data.decode("UTF-8")) srvsock.close()

The Message simply pulses an output for 3 seconds as a test and works perfectly. I assume I should be able to slot the code into the automation script where I would like to trigger something and it should be able to send the command to my system?

Code:
# This module's future home should be inside userdata/addon_data/script.cinema.experience/ha_scripts # to make sure it does not get over written when updating the script import xbmc, xbmcaddon import socket M1IP = "192.168.0.251" M1PORT = 2101 MESSAGE=b'0Ecn0030000300D4\r' _A_ = xbmcaddon.Addon('script.cinema.experience') _L_ = _A_.getLocalizedString _S_ = _A_.getSetting def activate_on( trigger = "None" ): """ Scripting to trigger almost anything(HA, other scripts, etc...) when videos start. Usage: activate_on( "Movie" ) will trigger code that is set under the Movie heading. """ if trigger == "None": xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - No Trigger Sent, Returning", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) return xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - activate_on( %s ) Triggered" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) # Script Start if trigger == _L_( 32613 ) and _S_( "ha_script_start" ) == "true": xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - %s Triggered" % _L_( 32613 ), level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) # place code below this line xbmc.executehttpapi( "Broadcast(<b>CE_Automate<li>script_start</b>)" ) # Trivia Intro elif trigger == _L_( 32609 ) and _S_( "ha_trivia_intro" ) == "true": xbmc.output( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - %s Triggered" % _L_( 32609 ), level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) # place code below this line ######################################################## srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT)) srvsock.sendall(MESSAGE) ######################################################## xbmc.executehttpapi( "Broadcast(<b>CE_Automate<li>trivia_intro</b>)" )

The example above with my code between the comment lines, would that work if I wanted the event to happen on the trivia intro? I just want to be sure that what I am trying would be possible before investing time on it.

That is the code for the Eden version of Cinema Experience which will give you other errors.

(2013-04-29, 12:26)phsyraxion Wrote: Tested... Doesn't work. If I add the few lines of code into the script under the #place code here part of any section, the CE script just wont run. Using the script file that came with the latest CE on Frodo I have the following:

Code:
# This module's future home should be inside userdata/addon_data/script.cinema.experience/ha_scripts # to make sure it does not get over written when updating the script import xbmc, xbmcaddon import socket, sys from threading import Thread triggers = sys.modules[ "__main__" ].triggers ha_settings = sys.modules[ "__main__" ].ha_settings M1IP = "192.168.0.251" M1PORT = 2101 class Automate: def __init__( self ): pass def activate_ha( self, trigger = None, prev_trigger = None, mode="thread" ): if ha_settings[ "ha_enable" ]: if ha_settings[ "ha_multi_trigger" ] and prev_trigger == trigger: pass elif mode != "thread": self.activate_on( trigger ) else: thread = Thread( name='ha_trigger', target=self.activate_on, args=( trigger, ) ) thread.start() return prev_trigger def activate_on( self, trigger = None ): """ Scripting to trigger almost anything(HA, other scripts, etc...) when videos start. Usage: activate_on( "Movie" ) will trigger code that is set under the Movie heading. """ if not trigger: xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - No Trigger Sent, Returning", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) return xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - activate_on( %s ) Triggered" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) if trigger in triggers: xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - Trigger %s" % trigger, level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE ) # Script Start if trigger == "Script Start" and ha_settings[ "ha_script_start" ]: # place code below this line pass # Trivia Intro elif trigger == "Trivia Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_intro" ]: pass # place code below this line srvsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) srvsock.settimeout(3) # 3 second timeout on commands srvsock.connect((M1IP, M1PORT)) srvsock.sendall(b'09ct01000CF4\r') srvsock.close() # Trivia elif trigger == "Trivia" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_start" ]: pass # place code below this line # Trivia Outro elif trigger == "Trivia Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_trivia_outro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Movie Theatre Intro elif trigger == "Movie Theater Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_mte_intro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Coming Attractions Intro elif trigger == "Coming Attractions Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_cav_intro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Trailer elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]: pass # place code below this line # Coming Attractions Outro elif trigger == "Coming Attractions Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_cav_outro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Feature Presentation Intro elif trigger == "Feature Presentation Intro" and ha_settings[ "ha_fpv_intro" ]: pass # place code below this line # MPAA Rating elif trigger == "MPAA Rating" and ha_settings[ "ha_mpaa_rating" ]: pass # place code below this line # Countdown elif trigger == "Countdown" and ha_settings[ "ha_countdown_video" ]: pass # place code below this line # Audio Format elif trigger == "Audio Format" and ha_settings[ "ha_audio_format" ]: pass # place code below this line # Movie elif trigger == "Movie" and ha_settings[ "ha_movie" ]: pass # place code below this line # Feature Presentation Outro elif trigger == "Feature Presentation Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_fpv_outro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Movie Theatre Intro elif trigger == "Movie Theatre Outro" and ha_settings[ "ha_mte_outro" ]: pass # place code below this line # Intermission elif trigger == "Intermission" and ha_settings[ "ha_intermission" ]: pass # place code below this line # Script End elif trigger == "Script End" and ha_settings[ "ha_script_end" ]: pass # place code below this line # Paused elif trigger == "Pause" and ha_settings[ "ha_paused" ]: pass # place code below this line # Resumed elif trigger == "Resume" and ha_settings[ "ha_resumed" ]: pass # place code below this line else: xbmc.log( "[script.cinema.experience] - [ home_automation.py ] - Opps. Something happened", level=xbmc.LOGNOTICE )

http://pastebin.com/DTqgFbnn

Not really sure what I am doing but it would be good to have the commands I need in the script file.

EDIT: Seems to work when I test in the #trailers section. May have something to do with the fact I am not using the Trivia Info?

The debug log you provided shows an indentation error in the code, the script uses 4 spaces(no tabs) for indentation. This is probably why it didn't work.

Code:
45:58 T:4824   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

45:58 T:4824   ERROR:   File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\portable_data\addons\script.cinema.experience\resources\lib\launch_automation.py", line 12, in <module>

45:58 T:5212   DEBUG: NEWADDON PythonCallbackHandler construction with PyThreadState 0xbddf900

45:58 T:4824   ERROR:     from home_automation import Automate

45:58 T:4824   ERROR:   File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\script.cinema.experience\ha_scripts\home_automation.py", line 53

45:58 T:4824   ERROR:     srvsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

45:58 T:4824   ERROR:    ^

45:58 T:4824   ERROR: IndentationError: unexpected indent

Since you are going to be repeating code through out the module, you should move the main part of your triggering out of the automate_on() function.

Code:
class Automate:

    def __init__( self ):

        pass

    def broadcast( self, data, port = 8278, ipaddress = '255.255.255.255' ):

        IPADDR = ipaddress

        PORTNUM = port

        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

        s.connect((IPADDR, PORTNUM))

        s.sendall(data)

        s.close()

Then in the if statements just need to have:

Code:
if trigger == "Script Start" and ha_settings[ "ha_script_start" ]: 

            self.broadcast( b'0Ecn0030000300D4\r', port = 2101, ipaddress = '192.168.0.251' )

shaktoo · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-29, 19:35 by shaktoo.)

@giftie another suggestion I am not sure this has been put forward before , this is regarding using CE script with 3D movies. What I propose ( if it could be done ) is to add settings for 3D movies ( to recognise file names with ".3D " with them to play trailers marked / matched locally with 3D trailers (either seperated in a particular folder whose path could be given to HC script or just marked with ".3D " in the file name or stream from here "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE4D71498D1E19B8E " .
in the intros section there could also be a setting to play the 3D imax intro.
I know for a fact that this would Further enrich the whole Home Cinema Experience.
What do you think ?
In my head sequence should be like this
As per my current settings i have local folder where I download all new trailers using ijourneaux's excellent "HD-Trailers.net Downloader" script. I would probably add a seperate folder for 3D trailers where I shall download all sbs 3D trailers.Another folder for 3D Imax Intros.
CE has settings for special 3D intros + 3D Trailers.
All my 3D movies are appropriately named with .3D in the filenames.
when I play .3D files using CE, this would then pull the specific intros / trailers as specified within the script.
Bliss !!
Is this Possible ?

phsyraxion · 2013-04-30, 06:21

Thanks for the feedback. That is exactly what I planned to do with the code once I had it working.

I found out that it was an indentation thing. I had the spaces done correctly but when I copied and pasted (using Notepad++) it added a "tabbed indent" to the first line and when I deleted the extra indent I removed the spaced indent, not the tabbed indent...

Bottom line is that I got it working without the need to install another addon or anything and I can now trigger my windows to close and the lighting to change when playing trailers etc and even when pressing pause.

chewie · 2013-05-01, 19:12

Hi all, first off, this script is amazing. It adds a level of professionalism to a home theater that is very difficult to achieve. Kudos!

My question revolves around changing frame rates/audio/resolution between videos. My system uses a projector that takes a few seconds to switch formats, so I was wondering if there was anyway to build in something like a 3 second delay between videos?

chewie · 2013-05-01, 23:31

Nevermind, I figured it out. If you are having the issue I was describing you simply go to Settings - Videos - Playback and increment the Pause during refresh rate change value so that your system has time to switch with the various videos that Cinema Experience is queuing up.

Hooray for answering your own question!

shaktoo · 2013-05-02, 00:03

(2013-05-01, 23:31)chewie Wrote: Hooray for answering your own question!

well done !