read out XBMC play, pause stop status

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luke,

XBian has in core system whole workflow already based on XBMC events.

check /var/log/upstart-xbmc-bridge.log file and you will see generated upstart events.
line like this

Code:

23/01/2014 20:53:08 Send event: ['initctl', 'emit', '-n', 'player', 'ACTION=STOP', 'TYPE=episode']

means there was generated event "player" with action "stop" and the played item was "episode" (tv show).

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check

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/upstart-xbmc-bridge.py

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