[postman_pat]

Prior to upgrading to XBMCv10, I used to do...

"wget -q --spider "http://xbmclive:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn(Not
ification($1,$2,30000))" > /dev/null"

In order to pop up notifications on the TV screen. This no longer works with XBMCv10.

Can anyone helpfully recommend an alternative way of achieving this?

Many thanks.

[Jimmer]

You can send notifications in Dharma using xbmc-send. I use it in shell scripts in conjunction with mythlink to import symlinks into XBMC and then export scraped info/fanart into the symlinked directory. I believe you can use it as following to pop-up a notification:

xbmc-send -a "Notification(header,message)"

if the machine is remote, you can specify --host=x.x.x.x and --port=xxxx. If you don't specify these, it'll assume that you're actually on the host machine and automatically pass localhost and 9777.

a full list of possible commands and syntax can be found here:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Lis..._Functions

xbmc-send is available as part of the xbmc-eventclients-xbmc-send package, so if you're on debian/ubuntu it's:

sudo apt-get install xbmc-eventclients-xbmc-send

hope this helps - I've found it really a really useful command!

Jim

[postman_pat]

Thank you very much. That is perfect.

Tested, works.

Don't spose you can also use it to read if XBMC is currently playing?