MEB 26 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Ill give it a try, this is the only plugin to do this with a vera and emby. Have you considered looking into creating a plugin on vera to help facilitate the actions and also allow for two way scenes like pausing when a doorbell is rung or if a light is turned on or off? I have scenes for door bell ringing so would be nice to just be able to get up and answer it without having to find the remote first. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Ill give it a try, this is the only plugin to do this with a vera and emby. Have you considered looking into creating a plugin on vera to help facilitate the actions and also allow for two way scenes like pausing when a doorbell is rung or if a light is turned on or off? I have scenes for door bell ringing so would be nice to just be able to get up and answer it without having to find the remote first. I found code to do this. I just have to learn the vera plugin environment, and the doorbell will pause media playback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzener 729 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 @@MEB What doorbell device are you referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEB 26 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 @@MEB What doorbell device are you referring to? I use a window/door sensor and a reed switch on the dry contact. I place the reed switch next to the electromagnet of the door bell. When the bell rings it triggers the sensor as closed. On vera I have a scene when the device closes it has Imperihome on my wall mounted phones say "Ding Dong" and displays the door cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennNZ 83 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) Hi Don't worry about the source - I understand - hard fought baby and all! - I think from reading a few forum posts I'm going through the same issues (with a similar skill level) that you had earlier in the year! Had made a start on another front (and needed to start on a emby plugin - because the c# api did not pull together for me) On this front needed a Emby Plugin - so worked through both my issues and the automation side - was hoping to get both done. BUT: Have just lost most of a day (last free day for a while) wondering why I couldn't get configPage to load (keep erroring out) - after most of the day and usual issues (Embedded code, GUI etc .etc) discovered it was I had installed ServiceStack package (later removed - rather than ServiceStack.Interfaces only) This must have buggered something up such that I spent the day trouble shooting. Even removing it didn't revert whatever it had done - so had to start over. Oh well - the reason I'm on this thread - is I had another approach to the Pause/UnPaused issue - which I think might work better if successful. I see you (from decompiling the dll -gives really readable code - must be the .net basis of it) are hooking into the EventHandlers for PlaybackStarted, PlaybackStopped -& SessionManager for start sessions etc - I had made a start exactly along this lines as well - until sidetracked. But sessionManager also has access to PlayState.IsPaused field - is the file paused or not. (at _sessionManger.Sessions - then within PlayState.IsPaused) I would suggest - hooking like you are into PlaybackProgress (Runs every second - best I can tell) and checking this PlayState.IsPaused for the DeviceID? (or SessionID - sorry forget) via _sessionManager ? Glenn Edited January 19, 2016 by GlennNZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) The version uploaded to the admin server yesterday, fixes any of the session problems. Works much better now. The session ended event seemed to be broken before the fix. Edited January 20, 2016 by chef 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 @@GlennNZGlenn sorry, I meant to post a download link to the sln yesterday. I will send you my version tonight. Again I do apologize. Also, you are correct that you use session manager, session manager has all the playback events. For some reason "IsPaused" didn't work. I'll look at it again tonight and see if I can use it during the playback checkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 @@Xzener! we can thank @@GlennNZ for figuring out the Playback Paused Events. He was spot on, and it works quite nicely. I look forward to seeing if he has anything else to add to the plugin! If you haven't yet, update to the latest version of the plugin, it has his fixes added. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzener 729 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Want to apologize for abandoning you and your app Chef. I will test things out and report back. Been very deep in the new Emby Theater testing as of late. Any progress on the Xbone UUID issue. Perhaps we can setup the app to rely on it's IP as opposed to UUID. The Vera app I'm using is dependent on IP addresses and is very dependable. Although this would only pertain to session started/ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Hey guys, I haven't actually gotten this working since my last post awhile back and I saw an update this morning. So I updated to latest and I cannot see my Vera unit after refreshing browser. Thoughts? Thanks Chef! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) Hey guys, I haven't actually gotten this working since my last post awhile back and I saw an update this morning. So I updated to latest and I cannot see my Vera unit after refreshing browser. Thoughts? Thanks Chef! @@fantaxp7 Yep, which UI are you using? Also does it appear I the configuration xml? Edited January 21, 2016 by chef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEB 26 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 The new pause update has been great, very fast response as well. Don't change a thing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 The new pause update has been great, very fast response as well. Don't change a thing Great news! Now we just have to figure out why fantas vera device isn't getting recognized and we'll have a stable product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 @@fantaxp7 Yep, which UI are you using? Also does it appear I the configuration xml? I logged into it to check, saw there was a firmware update and applied it...and of course now I can't reload the page...grr...I'll check later after I get home and can reboot it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 OK so I rebooted my vera, I have firmware 1.7.760 also the configuration xml...would it list it there even if the plugin doesn't see it? I'll have to fig around to find the xml as I recently switched to using the unraid docker version of emby server... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 There maybe a chance that the very info is being recorded to the configuration xml but not showin properly in the ui. Not sure why, but I thought I'd cover all the bases. When you find the configuration xml, delete it and then restart the emby server. You'll have to set up your devices agajn, but there is also a chance that new entries I the xml configuration may have broken older version of the plugin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 There maybe a chance that the very info is being recorded to the configuration xml but not showin properly in the ui. Not sure why, but I thought I'd cover all the bases. When you find the configuration xml, delete it and then restart the emby server. You'll have to set up your devices agajn, but there is also a chance that new entries I the xml configuration may have broken older version of the plugin. Ok so I deleted the config xml. Still didn't find my unit, then I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled, still did not find it. I also noticed there wasn't a xml after reinstalling, I assume that gets created after finding the vera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 Hmm... It should create the plugin xml right away when the server starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Hmm... It should create the plugin xml right away when the server starts. After another uninstall/reinstall the xml is back. The plugin still won't see my device. Is there a way to input the vera's IP manually into the xml? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 After another uninstall/reinstall the xml is back. The plugin still won't see my device. Is there a way to input the vera's IP manually into the xml? Thanks Yes, I will create the entry for that to happen. I will put a release out tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 After another uninstall/reinstall the xml is back. The plugin still won't see my device. Is there a way to input the vera's IP manually into the xml? Thanks Yes, I will create the entry for that to happen. I will put a release out tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 Hey @@MEB I figured out how to have you doorbell trigger emby playback. But Vera is wierd because it actually polls each device in its plugins (in real time too). So, I was thinking I would poll a particular device during playback. This means that when a media item starts its going to keep checking your doorbell every second for a trigger. But, I don't know the actual stress this going to have in your network, or how it would imped streaming. Let's give it a shot. I am close. I don't think my network could handle it, but I will mark the option as experimental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Hey Chef, Hate to sound like I'm nagging, but did you get a chance to look at how I might be able to manually enter my Vera's IP? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 Yep. I will post a new version in one second. If this still cause an issue, then I have one more version to try. I will upload the new version. By the way this new version breaks the xml configuration, so anyone updating will have to update their configuration from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 So new version is up. Again this breaks older versions but for good reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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