Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
it's hooked into Xorg using xautomation (xte) and it working great.
You were right about the repeat issue, even while going up and down
through menus I was being blocked by it.
You had it set to 2.5 seconds, I pulled that down to 0.05 or something
like that (0.0 seconds was rapid fire...)
In terms of security, you're right about the url attack angle.
Maybe just block kidsplayexec from being activated by url? (not sure if
that's even possible)
This even works when the squeezebox is off which is great; even while
the squeezebox is in use, the JVC DVD remote commands are processed
properly and does not affect the playback. Completely transparent.
I have created a simple bash script which is called by KidsPlay.
It's quick and dirty and needs some finesse work but it's working.
I could have skipped the bash script and had KidsPlay execute the xte
commands directly, but I wanted the extra abstraction layer.
In case anyone is interested here is the script.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
up)
xte -x :0.0 key Up
;;
down)
xte -x :0.0 key Down
;;
left)
xte -x :0.0 key Left
;;
right)
xte -x :0.0 key Right
;;
play)
xte -x :0.0 key Return
;;
return)
xte -x :0.0 key Return
;;
escape)
xte -x :0.0 key Escape
;;
*)
echo $Usage: $0 {right|left|up|down}
exit 1
esac
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
jth: Yeah, buying the pre-made, would be the easy way. but it would mean another cable to run down a floor to the basement and another electronic device (plus possibly remote) in the living room... more clutter. I'd like to use what i've already got to make this work. peter: thanks for the updated KidsPlay! it's working perfectly. Just need to hook it into XBMC -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
akennedy;509590 Wrote: peter: thanks for the updated KidsPlay! it's working perfectly. Just need to hook it into XBMC Good to hear. I'm considering a couple more changes for kidsplayexec to address security concerns. I'm trying to get my head around all the ways someone might abuse this new CLI command so I can make improvements to better protect everyone. There might be both setup changes (e.g. a different way of enabling kidsplayexec) and usage changes (e.g. needing to pass a server-specific PIN as an argument to kidsplayexec). -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
Matt: I've been looking into lirc and you're right, it would do what I want, but it would mean building/finding a receiver and running another cable through a wall. This will the solution if I can't get the squeezebox working the way i want. epoch1970/maggior: Thanks guys! I'll have a look into both of those avenues. They seem to be pointing in the right direction. I'll post by progress. -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
Take a look at KidsPlay. I could pretty easily add a new CLI command such that you could use the web UI to map a JVC button to a CLI command like Code: kidsplayexec /usr/bin/eject cdrom To execute the eject command with cdrom as its only argument... -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
KidsPlay (with the kidsplayexec) would do exactly what I am looking for. I had been looking at KidsPlay, but that before I knew most (all) IR events went right to the server. The end goal for me is to use a remote to control XBMC (XBox Media Center) So i'll just have to find a way to hook into the XOrg input controls. Thanks! -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
Now i've found a couple of programs to create keypress events. 1. xautomation (xte command) 2. xvkbd Looks like this will actually work! -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
akennedy;509352 Wrote: KidsPlay (with the kidsplayexec) would do exactly what I am looking for. OK, good to hear. I hope to find time to add this to KidsPlay over the weekend. The end goal for me is to use a remote to control XBMC (XBox Media Center) So i'll just have to find a way to hook into the XOrg input controls. These look promising: * sending X11 keystrokes: http://www.doctort.org/adam/nerd-notes/x11-fake-keypress-event.html * sending LIRC IR/button codes: http://japiblog.dddgames.com/?p=12 I like the LIRC idea a lot, especially since I have an SB3 sitting right next to a StreamZap USB IR receiver that I use as a LIRC receiver for MythTV (and mplayer). Along those lines, the following is probably a better solution than X11 since XBMC is designed to be used with LIRC: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-plugins/files/LIRC/LIRC%20V1.0/ -- except, considering that plugin's age (over 4 years old!), it almost certainly needs significant work to run in SC 7.3 / SBS 7.4. Ooh, actually there might be a significant problem with KidsPlay here. KidsPlay's main goal was to make an IR remote usable by my young child. One of its deliberate features (with IR codes, not Boom/Receiver physical buttons) is to ignore repeated button presses to some extent, to make the IR remote less frustrating. You probably want something more like the typical LIRC usage. E.G. if you hold the Volume Down button, you probably want XBMC to see Volume Down button events over and over. I don't remember how I coded that ignoring logic. It might be that I can easily expose that as a configurable variable and you could just tweak the config so it's responsive enough. Also along those lines, you'd probably get better responsiveness from something like a dedicated LIRC plugin that uses 100% Perl logic to send UDP messages to a LIRC daemon than having something like KidsPlay spawn a full process for each button press. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
I didn't realize that there was a lirc plugin for squeezebox. quite interesting. In terms of repeating events, i don't think that would be so much of an issue for me. I'm going to be old fashion and use the remote for my amp for volume and such. -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
after looking into the different options, i think using kidsplay would be the simplest method. if you found the time to add the kisplayexec command i would greatly appreciate it. -- akennedy akennedy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a remote and IR receiver? You can get one compatible with XBMC for under $40 (I use a streamzap). Otherwise you may end up with a brittle chain that breaks on each major upgrade to squeezeboxserver. -- jth jth's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
akennedy;509399 Wrote: after looking into the different options, i think using kidsplay would be the simplest method. if you found the time to add the kisplayexec command i would greatly appreciate it. OK, add this repository in your Extension Downloader page (if SC 7.3) or Plugins page (if SBS 7.4): http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/slim7/repodata-test.xml and give KidsPlay 2.5.1 or newer a try. The new command is documented in the KidsPlay configuration page. Note that unless you want to hack the Perl, KidsPlay requires you to enable Password Protection and set CRSF Protection to at least Medium in order to use the kidsplayexec command. The logic there is that kidsplayexec is somewhat dangerous. Without password protection, and device on your network could use it to basically get a shell prompt via the SC/SBS CLI interface. Without CSRF protection, if somebody got you to open a page with an IMG tag with SRC=http://localhost:9000/status.html?p0=kidsplayexecp1=somebadcommandp2=etc, then they could trick you into doing nasty things. I may yet add an additional setting on the web page and default to this command not being enabled, for another safety measure. Please let me know how it goes! Also, I wrote the author of that LIRC plugin, and he hasn't done any work on it in years. :-( So that avenue would indeed require some effort. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
You can customize a couple of files to modify the behavior of certain IR codes. In a subdirectory in the squeezecenter heirarchy called IR, you will find files with a .map extension and a .ir extension. If you create a custom.map file, changes you put in there will override what is in the default. Any .ir file you create will show up in the setup options for a player in the web UI. If you go into the help in the webui for SC, there are some details on modifying these files. I did some of this to make my DirecTV remote work with my SB3: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73546 To determine what IR codes are being generated, you can boost the logging level for IR codes to INFO via the web UI. Each time you press a key on the remote, an entry will be created in the log file telling you what IR code was generated. You can then use this information to change it's behavior in the .ir and/or .map files. Hope that helps you out. -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
sounds like you might want to take a look here: http://www.lirc.org/ you'll need to build or acquire an IR receiver, it's obviously not ideal if your squeezebox is a long way away from your server... -- MattC MattC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Use remote control to control Linux
IR blaster uses lirc, it has a learning mode which seems to prove everything the player receives goes straight to the server. The plugin handles a limited number of commands (power, volume) but perhaps you can work your way from there ? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/IRBlaster -- epoch1970 epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74071 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
