Dune HD Max - XML responds

[ROBBshop 2]

Hi everyone,

 

moving on with the automation I am trying to automate my Dune HD Max video streamer. I have found the API document and I can send several commands.

 

The one that puzzles me most is reading the current player state:

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The responds is similar to this:

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How can I decode the info to just get the "player_state"? I know how this works in a JSON, but not in a XML layout.

 

Any help is appreciated

[ROBBshop 2]

Ok, making progress but to the correct result...

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This works, but the table is overwritten by itself meaning it only returns the last rule..

That means during playback it makes this:

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into this

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It obviously needs to add a level extra so I can then filter the json table I get

 

The goal offcourse is:

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or even better

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[ROBBshop 2]

Ok, a long night puzzling I made progress:

 

The player now returns multiple line:

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And I can pull values from this table:

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Now I would like to be able to create a loop doing:

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How to do this with a json table?

[Berkshirebugsy 0]

I found this post very interesting because I am in the research stage of a home automation project and one of the key requirements *was* to interact with a Plex media server (via its web service) to obtain library  information. Although I have experience of scripting (in different languages) I am completely new to the HC2 environment. I am interested in this post for two reasons

 

1) I want to know if the language the HC2 uses is capable of processing XML requests coming back from  a device (which I believe is what may be being asked here) without having to resort to parsing "<" and "/>" constructs

 

2) I am also interested in the DUNE HD devices which have been mentioned. 

 

So I will be following this conversation with open eyes and I'm off to Google JSON which I had never heard of until two minutes ago!

[ROBBshop 2]

The language the HC2 uses is called LUA and is widely documented.

 

The XML parser is listed in my code above. (and on the

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[Berkshirebugsy 0]

The language the HC2 uses is called LUA and is widely documented.

 

The XML parser is listed in my code above. (and on the

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)

 

Thanks - I had read about LUA for my very early stages and had worked out that is what the HC2 uses - I was thrown by the JSON reference.

 

I will carry on reading