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Play a particular movie??

appliedautomation

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Authorized Kaleidescape Dealer
Hi,
Im trying to find a command which I can send from a control system to a kaleidescape system to play any particular movie.

I have a list of movie handles, which I would like to play on command.

This must be possible as the official app does this as well as some third party apps.

Thanks
 
How did you go about getting a list of movie handles. I haven't yet found a super elegant way to do this in real time.
 
Turns out I didn't get it fully working.....

I did it the same way the iPad app works using a http JSON request to download all the details of all films in a matter of seconds, this gives you meta data etc and a movie ID as well which you can use to play a movie.

How ever, you need a session ID to authenticate with the server, to do the http request and to send the play command. This is not something KS gives out so i have no way of creating my own session with the server. I tested using the session ID given to the iPad app at the time. Obviously this session expires in a short space of time.

Romie remote works in the same way.

Sadly I've had to put the project on the shelf because of this, if KS ever release the needed info I'll give it another go.

Thanks.
 
I am interested in how you got the json response to get the details of all the movies. I can handle the session ID part.

Also how can you play a particular movie with that ID? I have been going through the ControlProtocolReference Manual
 
Not sure where the person that left the code's comment went....... But thank you that helped me get the JSON instead of using curl to downoad the page and then parse it.

As for playing the movie by ID I am still working on that part. I would love to use the telnet / bash script / or php to do it. Can anyone help a brother out?
 
Not sure where the person that left the code's comment went.......


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Jim
 
Great. In that case if you need help with any kscape API's feel free to reach out to me.
 
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