New Systems Plugin

[kirschey]

I would love to develop a new systems plugin for the windows client for v5, but I am not even sure this is possible. If anyone has the knowledge of where/how to add GUI elements to run a few commands, like shutdown -r, shutdown -s, and hard drive space, etc.

[sub]

Unfortunately it's not plugins aren't currently possible in v5. There is no framework to look for them, and hook them up etc.

Under v4 there were very few plugins, and they were only used by a handful of people, so it was pretty far down the priority list when implementing v5.

[kirschey]

I was thinking if there were a few api hooks, I could simply build a web framework in PHP or JavaScript etc. If I could help build it out in any way I would, but thank you.

[mvallevand]

Hard drive space is in the web app already. Are you looking to shutdown reboot the server remotely? How often do you do that?


Martin

[kirschey]

I want to display it in the windows client. Wife-friendly.

[sub]

When you're logged into the web app (so the session is logged in), open the following in web browser tab:

http://localhost:8866/service?method=sys...ormat=json

You should see the available disk space.

To call this from application, you need a few extra steps to login a session. The easiest example is probably in the kodi addon at https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.nextpvr/tree/Matrix/src. There has been a couple of forum posts that have discussed it in the past. If you decide to give this a go, and need help, just ask.

Alternatively you could run nscripthelper to make the call.

[imilne]

Are you saying you'll never implement what we need to update plugins, sub? I'm still using v4 for now but keep meaning to get around to setting up v5 properly, but I'd certainly miss the ability to add plugins. Certainly the System plugin was one of my most used; we shut the machine down at the end of every night.

Iain

[sub]

I'm not adverse to adding the plugin support back into nextpvr.exe, but any plugins would need to be rebuilt to target .net standard, instead of .net framework. (ie, so wouldn't be able to load existing plugins without changes by the developers)

[imilne]

That'd be fine with me - I certainly never expected them to just work. No rush though, at least for me and while the rest of the household are still quite happy with v4. I should probably get things updated to Windows 10 too. Urgh.

Iain

[mvallevand]

I actually thought NextPVR.exe was still net framework. I'm not sure how plugins work since they could still be exposed to non Windows platforms through UI Client. Most of Systems Plugin would be Windows specific I suspect.

Martin