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[bdgarcia]

Does MCWS offer any method to proactively notify when a new album or track starts playing?

[Matt]

You'll have to poll, using something like MCWS/v1/Playback/Info

I would think for an MCWS server to event would require it talking to some sort of callback address to the client, and I'm not really sure how that would work.

[bdgarcia]

Matt,

Thank you.   I believe XBMC does this type of eventing via UDP messages.   It could also be something where you provide an HTTP Get / Post to the client, and the client has to provide HTTP server functionality if they want to receive messages.   I can build my own plugin I guess to do this, I have not researched this though.   Do you know if the internal API provides some type of eventing that a plug in can receive for these types of events?

Thx
Bryan

[Matt]

Other options include:

You can subscribe for DLNA events from Media Center if you're on the same subnet.

You can catch system-wide broadcasts of MCC notifications for track changes if you're on the same machine.

You can catch notifications through the COM automation interface.

[bdgarcia]

Matt,

Do you have any sample code on registering for event notifications from DLNA?    I know it is a UDP based protocol.

Thx
Bryan

[Matt]

No, sorry.  DLNA is pretty complicated, so you'd probably have to find a DLNA stack.

Broadcasting events on a local UDP port is something we'll consider for MCWS in the future.