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KenT2 / pipresents-gapless

A retired version of Pi Presents. Please use Pi Presents KMS which works on legacy RPi OS Bullseye or Pi Presents GTK which works on RPi OS Bookworm and RPi Model 5
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Execute OS process #154

Closed wdonker closed 1 year ago

wdonker commented 1 year ago

More a question than an issue: I'm using PiPresents Gapless and want to switch a Wifi smart powerplug when starting or ending a show. The plug can be switched by http. Is there a (easy) way to send the http-command from PiPresents (maybe using curl)?

KenT2 commented 1 year ago

Not easy, you will need to write a little python code. Either

  1. Use an I/O plugin. Using this an output event will send the http: command. There are instructions in the manual for writing the plugins.

  2. add a Show Control command. The code for the current commands is in pipresents.py at around line 546. Probably best to modify the code for an existing command.

  3. is probably easier. Whichever you do the code should not block for more than 100mS as PP uses cooperative scheduling.

wdonker commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the suggestions, Ken. I will see what is a feasible solution for me. The I/O plugin seems the most clean but maybe also the most difficult to implement. For now, this issue can be closed.