Ability to add a delay?

[vulcanjedi]

I found a script that natively was intended to run as a service that monitors XBOX LIVE and it runs every x mins and tells you of new friends get online. Works relatively well.
Well I thought w/ VC it would be nice to be able to instantiate it anytime i wanted, cause when u do that I will find all the friends from a state like you just got on so you would see ALL your friends and not just those that have gotten on since the previous run. Thus if i just missed it or was eating, if i manually call the script I can see the online status of any friends that are on.

Well i got that well and good.
The problem is, I'm using the XBMCbuntu calling from a remote node so i have the XBMC notifications as the OSD
So when i say 'are any friends on xbox live"
it shows that on screen, and well the script ran and then u kinda of miss the first bit cause the OSD from VC hasn't transitioned away yet?
I didn't see if that was configurable, but can i add a delay so that i say "any friends on xbox live", wait 5 secs, call script?

[xtermin8r]

Hi Vulcanjedi

If you require a delay then you can use the action vc.pause, you can find more info on vc.pause if you follow this link.
http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Actions#Pause

[vulcanjedi]

Thanks! Ill see if i can figure it out
I've managed to get VC to open up my addon streams, but when I try to configure my XBMCbuntu node to do this runscript i get zilch.
I get zilch. from a URL works fine but from test executions in VC I dont think I am getting it to work?

URL
http://user:pass@node:port/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn(runscript(/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py))

from vc
runscript(/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py)

[xtermin8r]

hi
give me a moment to check it out.

[xtermin8r]

hi there

I can confirm that VC does launch python scripts without a problem.

This is the way i did it.
XBMC.ExecBuiltin RunScript(E:\xbmc-11.0\portable_data\addons\script.Hali.Automation\default.py)

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[vulcanjedi]

Oh xtermin8r i know it does i got it to do so on a Windows machine, just trying to get it to do so on my XBMCbuntu one for somethings just off..

[xtermin8r]

i'm sorry i couldnt help, i have no experience with xbmcbuntu.

[vulcanjedi]

nah i apprecraite the effort, these forums are pretty good. Yeah i have everything working, got the smart lists connected and everything, just can't figure out what I'm missing here. Especially since the URL approach does work.  I don't know Linux either...but I guess I'm learning:)

[xtermin8r]

hi
If there is a problem with xbmcbuntu you can try checking the log files, if there are any. If not, see if there is a feature inside xbmcbuntu settings to enable debugging.

[vulcanjedi]

hi
If there is a problem with xbmcbuntu you can try checking the log files, if there are any. If not, see if there is a feature inside xbmcbuntu settings to enable debugging.

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22:33:25 T:5754224   ERROR: Python script "home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-service.XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py" does not exist
good call, unfortunately doesn't tell me much   wonder if its some escape character or somethign cause like i said again, the url works maybe some linux smarties will help me figure it out, I'll keep trying...
right now I still like this setup and it performs well this standard mic on my Mac. I hooked up a kinect and it was really really bad.

[xtermin8r]

hi
It is very strange, like you said it does work using the url method. I am sure it's something trivial.

[xtermin8r]

Hi

22:33:25 T:5754224   ERROR: Python script "home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-service.XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py" does not exist

Aha something at last, looks like something to do with the path (just a guess).

[xtermin8r]

Try the url method and have a look at the log.

[vulcanjedi]

Hi

Aha something at last, looks like something to do with the path (just a guess).

thanks again xtermin8r; for anyone else interested
"home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-service.XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py"

I tried ./home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-service.XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py
I tried "s and 's
but it was just /home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/test-service.XBLFriends-8926e01/service.py
But as a great reminder, the log helped reaffirm a specific path problem and not a call problem and I believe I dont even need the delay but that command page is too a good reminder.

Great to be able to voice command what friends are online atm.  Yea.

[xtermin8r]

Hi vulcanjedi

Are you saying  you have it working now.