[beardedgeek]

Another update...

I've got it working using xbmc 12.1 frodo. Json was a little tricky to get sorted as it's rpc vesion 2 so it was giving me errors even it looked ok. The formatting is strict, so I resorted to building it up using arrays in PHP and json encoding it.

I have it working from a php script using curl. I've also worked out using the xbmc api that I can pass in variables over the json command, which I can then pick up in the xbmc app and show on the popup message.

Here's the code triggering the json command

PHP Code:

<?php

$blackBoxIP = '10.0.7.12';
$XbmcPort = '8081';

echo "Sending Notification...\n";

$data = array(    "jsonrpc" => "2.0", 
                "id" => "0", 
                "method" => "Addons.ExecuteAddon", 
                "params" => array(    "addonid"=> "script.doorbell",
                                    "params" => array (    'image'  => 'notificationicon.jpg',
                                                        'string1'=> 'Hello World',
                                                        'string2'=> 'Showing this message using',
                                                        'string3'=> 'Combination of XBMC python modules and',
                                                        'string4'=> 'JSON-RPC API interface',
                                                        'string5'=> 'Have fun coding'
                                                        )
                                )
                );
                                                                          
$data_string = json_encode($data);
 
$ch = curl_init("http://$blackBoxIP:$XbmcPort/jsonrpc");                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                                                                     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);                                                                  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
    'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))                                                                       
);                                                                                                       
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

if(curl_exec($ch) === false)
{
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
else
{
    echo 'Sent succesfully';
}

curl_close($ch); 


I'm still trying to figure out how I catch the strings in the script and display them on the popup. At the moment all I'm getting is erros but I have this to follow ( http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...orld_addon ) so I'll work out a little more tomorrow after work.