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UDP Sockets #188746 29/10/07 10:01 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 17 S Stefan_Leroux OP Pikka bird
OP Stefan_Leroux Pikka bird S Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 17	Hey guys, I'm needing a little bit of help with a minor script. Well, maybe a lot of help, because I honestly dont have a clue, but maybe I can find out if this is at least possible. I have an xbox, which runs xbmc on my network, and I'm looking to detect a few of the functions froom this. The xbox runs a broadcast function in the background, which sends a UDP datagram whenever an error occurs (among other things). Basically, I'm looking for a way to listen for this broadcast, and take the information from it, to store in a variable. I've looked on the xbmc website, and found this information about the function. The Broadcast facility uses the UDP broadcast protocol with a default port setting of 8278. XBMC broadcasts on the IP address 255.255.255.255 which is the limited broadcast address. The actual broadcasts are delimited by <b></b> and may consist of a numerical or textual description of the event (depening on the event) I've used a small util which lets me see these on Windows, and one of the messages appears as "<b>OnPlayBackStarted;1</b>" I know how to remove the <b>s etc, but I dont have a clue about the actual listening, or reading information. Can anyone give me a clue as to whether this is possible, and how it would be done? Thanks Stefan Leroux Swift as the Wind Silent as a Forest Fierce as Fire Immovable as a Mountain

Re: UDP Sockets Stefan_Leroux #188753 30/10/07 01:44 AM
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 508 Storage D deegee Fjord artisan
deegee Fjord artisan D Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 508 Storage	Check the help file, /help /sockudp and /help on udpread Basically you need to open a UDP socket with the -k switch and define a UDPread event to recieve the data. Open the socket... //sockudp -k xbox 8278 $ip 8278 and read the data... Code: on *:udpread:xbox:{ var %a sockread -f %a echo -a %a }

Re: UDP Sockets deegee #188756 30/10/07 02:35 AM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 17 S Stefan_Leroux OP Pikka bird
OP Stefan_Leroux Pikka bird S Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 17	Thats absolutely perfect, thanks mate. I had been checking the help files, but tbh, after 8 years my scripting is still absolutely rubbish, the best I came up with was sockudp -k xbmc 192.168.0.20 8272 which obviously didnt work So, thanks very, very much. - I've added that to my script, and now the whole thing is working perfectly... so thanks again. Last edited by Stefan_Leroux; 30/10/07 03:15 AM. Swift as the Wind Silent as a Forest Fierce as Fire Immovable as a Mountain

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