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Title: Any way to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 11, 2019, 04:15:35 am

Hi
on a Mac and struggling to find a way to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree.

for example if I have a tree like this (see attached) where I have a sub audio tree named `XAlbums`, how does one bind a key to jump to it?

thx a lot

Z

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: blgentry on July 11, 2019, 09:36:21 am

As far as I know, there's no MCC (media center core command) to change tree or view.  To bind a key using MC, you need an MCC to execute.

There appears to be an MCWS command (web REST interface) that can show views, but I can't get it to work.  The function is called "Show" and is in the user interface section of MCWS.

http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/doc

Of course even if you can get that to work, you'd have to use some external key mapping program which is not a part of MC since MC can not call MCWS stuff from it's key bindings.

You can open several tabs and keep them on your favorite views and then have MC start up in "last location", which will preserve all of your tabs and what you have them showing.

There's also some functionality under View > Navigation > Organize Favorites that's related to this I think.  I have never used it as it seems confusing to me.  But maybe it can help you.

That's all I've got!  Good luck.

Brian.

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: Matt on July 11, 2019, 09:51:38 am

I'm making MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Show richer in the next build.

Here's the history:
Changed: Made the MCWS UserInterface/Show treat anything that's not a known string as a tree path to select.

Thanks for the prod :)

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 12, 2019, 07:34:46 am

Sounds very promising

thx a lot will wait for next version

Z

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 20, 2019, 03:46:46 am

Hi Matt and all

I understand that in the latest version you implemented the selection of the view:

"Changed: Made the MCWS UserInterface/Show treat anything that's not a known string as a tree path to select."

I'm trying to get it to work but a bit lost, appreciate  any help with this. So I have a view called "3Main". Im issuing this:

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zeltak@imbp-50:/|⇒  wget http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/UserInterface/Show\=3Main -O /dev/null

but get this error

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--2019-07-20 11:42:40--  http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/UserInterface/Show=3Main
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1, ::1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:52199... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal server error
2019-07-20 11:42:40 ERROR 500: Internal server error.

can anyone show me an example of how to get it to work?

thx a lot

Z

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: Hendrik on July 20, 2019, 03:52:01 am

The proper URL for that would be this:

http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Show?View=3Main

with appropriate escaping, of course.

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 20, 2019, 04:40:32 am

thx so much @Hendrik

ive tried that with not much success still:

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zeltak@imbp-50:~/ZH_tmp|⇒  wget http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/UserInterface/Show\?View\=3Main
--2019-07-20 12:38:09--  http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/UserInterface/Show?View=3Main
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1, ::1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:52199... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal server error
2019-07-20 12:38:09 ERROR 500: Internal server error.

also tried via the web and get this error (see attachment 1)

also attaching the current view in MC

can you elaborate more about escaping? I don't have a empty space in my view as far as a I can tell but perhaps I'm missing something

best

Z

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: blgentry on July 20, 2019, 10:23:20 am

Try it in a web browser first.  Once you get it working there, you can probably copy the URL to wget.  It also might be helpful to surround the URL in wget with single quotes, as that should protect the special characters from the shell, and let get see them directly.

Brian.

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 20, 2019, 11:56:06 am

thx appreciate  the answer
This is the error I get when using the browser:

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This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Response Status="Failure" Information="Function 'Playback/UserInterface/Show' not found."/>

I also tried the normal Audio view:

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http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/UserInterface/Show?View=Audio

alas with same error

any clue?

thx

Z

Title: Re: anyway to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: Hendrik on July 20, 2019, 12:59:11 pm

Oh, remove the Playback from the path.
Should be only http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Show?View=3Main

You can lookup commands and their parameters here:
http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/doc

Title: Re: Any way to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 21, 2019, 12:14:00 am

Thx so much @Hendrik
it works great
last question if you don't mind. If I have subviews such as Audio>xAlbums (see attached screen), how does one refer to them?
I tried with several methods such as normal unix paths '/' and so on but always gets an error

thx

Z

Title: Re: Any way to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: RoderickGI on July 21, 2019, 01:06:27 am

On Windows;

http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Show?View=Audio\xAlbums

would work.

I assume on the Mac you tried;

http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Show?View=Audio/xAlbums

I suspect that last part is just a string passed into MC as a path to follow, and it may use the "Windows" path delimiter, "\".

Title: Re: Any way to bind a key to a specific favourite view or audio sub tree?
Post by: zeltak on July 21, 2019, 05:56:48 am

thx again!

using the '\\' did the trick!!

thx again

Z