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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: DoubtingThomas on March 19, 2013, 10:02:58 am

Title: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: DoubtingThomas on March 19, 2013, 10:02:58 am

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NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls: MC18.exe "/MCWS/v1/Playback/Pause?State=-1"

The example command above works, but I get no output from the command below.

mc18.exe "/MCWS/v1/Playback/Info?Zone=-1"


Running

wget -q -O - http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Playback/Info?Zone=-1

gives the expected XML output.

Title: Re: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: Matt on March 19, 2013, 10:29:14 am

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79245.msg538373#msg538373

Title: Re: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: kstuart on March 19, 2013, 11:47:59 am

Can someone clarify what we can do differently now ?

Previously, in order to pause MC18 from another PC on the local lan, the following had to be done:

* Implement Media Network on MC18

* Run the following glynor script on the other PC (only relevant portion shown here):

oXMLHTTP.open "GET", "http://192.168.N.N:NNNN/MCWS/v1/Playback/PlayPause?Zone=-1&ZoneType=ID", False, "computer", "password"
oXMLHTTP.send

Can this be done differently now?  Or is the new implementation for a similar, yet different situation ?

Title: Re: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: Matt on March 19, 2013, 11:54:31 am

If you're controlling across the network, you need to call the web service over the network (so not with the command line).

Title: Re: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: Matt on March 19, 2013, 11:58:07 am

Quote from: kstuart on March 19, 2013, 11:47:59 am

Can someone clarify what we can do differently now ?

You can call MCWS functions (on the local computer) from the command line.

There are a lot of things you can do with MCWS that weren't possible with the command line before.

More here and an example:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79245

Title: Re: NEW: The command line allows making MCWS web service calls
Post by: glynor on March 19, 2013, 02:18:22 pm

This is awesome, by the way.  Thanks, Matt.