i just wanted to give a big *thank you* to the xbmc developers for putting python support into xbmc, it's truly awesome. there are a *lot* of neat things that can be done with this, and it's about time that we had an easy user-level scripting language to use for doing cool things on the xbox. i'm really looking forward to what can be done with this in the future.
in particular, i've written a basic irc bot that comes onto irc (by utilizing the sockets support in python) and can be controlled into doing some very basic things (i.e. playing a particular song/movie, etc.) it works surprisingly well. in the future i plan on writing in dcc support so that the bot can receive/send files to/from xbmc (the idea being, the bot will be able to say "now playing: song x, to download, type /ctcp mybot blah".) although i know that xbmc is alpha software for now, i have a couple of suggestions. i'm sure you guys have thought of some of these already, but without further ado:
* the ability to auto-execute scripts upon loading would be a major plus, that way my irc bot would always re-join automatically.
* several functions that would allow us to see what media is being played (and its name, size, length, how much its played so far, etc) would be very useful. also, some kind of traversal functions would be good (i.e. "tell me all of the mp3 files available on my smb share in a certain directory) subsequently, being able to query information about that file (i.e. "return the id3 tags for file x") would be useful.
beyond that, *thanks* for doing a great job, and i see that filezilla support was finally added into the cvs tree, so maybe now i'll be able to use xbmc as a dashboard replacement.
i look forward to seeing what else will come of xbmc.
--cyan
in particular, i've written a basic irc bot that comes onto irc (by utilizing the sockets support in python) and can be controlled into doing some very basic things (i.e. playing a particular song/movie, etc.) it works surprisingly well. in the future i plan on writing in dcc support so that the bot can receive/send files to/from xbmc (the idea being, the bot will be able to say "now playing: song x, to download, type /ctcp mybot blah".) although i know that xbmc is alpha software for now, i have a couple of suggestions. i'm sure you guys have thought of some of these already, but without further ado:
* the ability to auto-execute scripts upon loading would be a major plus, that way my irc bot would always re-join automatically.
* several functions that would allow us to see what media is being played (and its name, size, length, how much its played so far, etc) would be very useful. also, some kind of traversal functions would be good (i.e. "tell me all of the mp3 files available on my smb share in a certain directory) subsequently, being able to query information about that file (i.e. "return the id3 tags for file x") would be useful.
beyond that, *thanks* for doing a great job, and i see that filezilla support was finally added into the cvs tree, so maybe now i'll be able to use xbmc as a dashboard replacement.
i look forward to seeing what else will come of xbmc.--cyan
