Using MVP + GBPVR to navigate cable on demand menus.

[jksmurf]

I thought you needed a solution to get from the mvp to Eventghost on your GBPVR PC and not to GPBVR itself.
Martin

You understood correctly the first time .... all I need is the MVP to carry the signal to Eventghost, so EG can control the USBUIRT, which zaps the DSL box. GBPVR would not be involved. I am not sure how this would work or if it possible, as it seems like GBPVR is "in control", but if EG can intercept that one button press, that's what I'd like.

k.

[sub]

There is no way Event Ghost will see a key press notification arriving over TCP from the MVP.

[jksmurf]

There is no way Event Ghost will see a key press notification arriving over TCP from the MVP.

Oh. bummer. Ah well, it was worth a shot to see if Martin or yourself could do / suggest something wickedly clever, I really haven't a clue how all this works.

cheers anyway,

k.

[mvallevand]

You understood correctly the first time .... all I need is the MVP to carry the signal to Eventghost, so EG can control the USBUIRT, which zaps the DSL box. GBPVR would not be involved. I am not sure how this would work or if it possible, as it seems like GBPVR is "in control", but if EG can intercept that one button press, that's what I'd like.

k.

Find out more about the http interface and I can probably help. I'm not going to install the software but I'd be willing to join in on forum thread somewhere. This type of solution uses tcpip and not IR technology and assuming it can all be done by passing one url encoded string I probably can do this in 6 lines of code.

Of course if you want to look at a fringe solution, some of the mvpmc guys are working on flashing the LED on the front of the mvp fast enough to mimic a remote control. This is way beyond me technical expertise, I prefer tcpip solutions.

Martin

[mvallevand]

There is no way Event Ghost will see a key press notification arriving over TCP from the MVP.

I wouldn't send a key press I'd send an http message to the Evenghost server completely independent from GBPVR.

Martin

[jksmurf]

Find out more about the http interface and I can probably help. I'm not going to install the software but I'd be willing to join in on forum thread somewhere. This type of solution uses tcpip and not IR technology and assuming it can all be done by passing one url encoded string I probably can do this in 6 lines of code.

Of course if you want to look at a fringe solution, some of the mvpmc guys are working on flashing the LED on the front of the mvp fast enough to mimic a remote control. This is way beyond me technical expertise, I prefer tcpip solutions.

Martin

Cheers Martin, I'll scrounge around the EG forums. The TCPIP solution sounds cleaner to me.

k.

[sub]

I wouldn't send a key press I'd send an http message to the Evenghost server completely independent from GBPVR.

My comments were more about now using the current setup, rather than what might be available with additional development. Anything is possible, but its so specific that it is not something I could justify spending any development time on. I'm glad to hear you might have a solution for jksmurf that doesnt require me to do anything though.

[jksmurf]

Find out more about the http interface and I can probably help. I'm not going to install the software but I'd be willing to join in on forum thread somewhere. Martin

Martin, does this help you at all?

http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopi...3287#p3287

k.

[mvallevand]

Martin, does this help you at all?

http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtopi...3287#p3287

Sure does, and it looks easy enough.

The work for you now is to create the page that he's talking about and make sure it does want you want locally. Before going to mvpmc make sure you can do it using IE or firefox.

After that to test that it works from mvpmc, create an m3u text file called EventGhost.m3u in your mvpmc share folder In this file you will tell mvpmc how to connect to EventGhost by entering its URL ie:

Code:

http://egip/emptypage.html?MyEvent

or if you aren't running on port 80

http://egip:port/emptypage.html?MyEvent

[I]egip [/I] is the ip of your EventGhost Web Server.

Then, use mvpmc's filesystem to go to /etc/mvpmc and hit enter on the file and the event should be triggered.

Once you've got that done I add the 5-10 lines of code needed to add this to a Go function key.

Martin

[jksmurf]

Wow. Cool. It'll probably be a day or two as my folks are coming to stay.

Cheers,
k.