[ottO54]

Dear all,
I in the process of modifying fairly old radios (40s…50s) to Kodi players. I try to use the old switches for control of Kodi. The current radio has a four position switch which I use for the selection of three radio stations via the Radio plugin and my music collection. The reading of the switch and switching of the programs is done via the autoexec.py
What I see is, that Kodi crashes when I urn the switch to fast. What I’m looking for is a method by which I can determine if the running switch is completed (addon loaded and running) and it is save to switch again. For the time being I try to block switch through timeouts. Here is the code of my autoexec.py:

python:
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

sys.path.append('/storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.rpi-tools/lib')

import xbmc

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

import time



GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)



LED = 22   #GPIO used for LED

SEL0 = 27       #Selector bit 0

SEL1 = 17       #Selector bit 1



#Selector

PreSelect = 99

Select = 0

SelBit0 = 0

SelBit1 = 0



#Zeitsperre

SinceLastSwitch = 0



# Set up GPIO 22 and turn LED off

GPIO.setup(LED, GPIO.OUT, initial=GPIO.LOW)



# Set up GPIO 27, 17  as input for selector

GPIO.setup(SEL0, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)

GPIO.setup(SEL1, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)



def WaitUntilRunning():

    while (xbmc.getCondVisibility('Window.IsActive(notification)') == True):

    #while (xbmc.Player().isPlaying() == False):

        time.sleep(0.1)



def WaitUntilStopped():

    while (xbmc.Player().isPlaying() == True):

        time.sleep(0.1)

        

def LightSwitchLED():

    StartAt = time.time()

    Runtime = 5

    NowIs = time.time()

    GPIO.output(LED, GPIO.HIGH)

    while ((NowIs - StartAt) < RunTime):

        NowIs = time.time()

        time.sleep(0.1)

    GPIO.output(LED, GPIO.LOW)

    

def SwitchToAddon(TargetAddon, TargetNumber):

    TargetString = 'Select = ' + TargetNumber + ' -- Ups!'

    try:

        xbmc.executebuiltin("PlayerControl(Stop)")

        WaitUntilStopped()

        xbmc.executebuiltin(TargetAddon)

        WaitUntilRunning()

    except:

        xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification(%s, %s, %d)'%(TargetString, 'von ottO', 2000))



while True:

    time.sleep(0.2)

    Select = (GPIO.input(SEL1) * 2) + GPIO.input(SEL0)

    if (Select != PreSelect):

        if (SinceLastSwitch < time.time()):

            PreSelect = Select

            SinceLastSwitch = time.time() + 15  # Timeout für nächsten Switch

            if (Select == 0):

                SwitchToAddon("PlayMedia(/storage/.kodi/userdata/playlists/music/AlleMucke.m3u)", "0")

                xbmc.executebuiltin("PlayerControl(RandomOn)")

            elif (Select == 1):

                SwitchToAddon("PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.audio.radio_de/station/2976)", "1")

            elif (Select == 2):

                SwitchToAddon("PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.audio.radio_de/station/2263)", "2")

            elif (Select == 3):

                SwitchToAddon("PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.audio.radio_de/station/1521)", "3")

            else:

                xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification(%s, %s, %d)'%('Select falsch - Ups!', 'von ottO', 2000))

        else:

            xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification(%s, %s, %d)'%('Nicht so schnell, Isabel!', 'von ottO', 1000))

            time.sleep(1)

Any help on this?

[pkscout]

You could try using a skin property that shows the current state of the run.  You'd check at the beginning to see if it was set.  If it was, then wait a bit and check again.  Once running, set it to something (it's text, so you could use "true" just remember it isn't a boolean), then set it back to empty when the script is done.

python:


WINDOW = xbmcgui.Window(10000) # this is the Home window

WINDOW.setProperty("switch_running", "true")

...

WINDOW.setProperty("switch_running", "")