re-enable webremote with sendkeyplus

[jsmmd]

Maybe I can help...

steve90071,

I was in the same boat as you. I created /devbin and copied sendkeyplus as sendkey in that folder. All was well. no more error messages.

[jsmmd]

Strange behavior between .8 beta and .9 beta with Webremote.

.8 beta works great except for the known issues

.9 beta is throwing errors for buttons. below is the guide button. Only variance is the sofware versions.

Thoughts?

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
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action_sendkey '/guide' ''
Usage: sendkeyplus [options]  [...]
        Send one or more keypress events to TiVo software v6.1 and higher.
        sendkeyplus requires alldeadhomiez' routerplus kernel module,
        see http://www.pvrhax0r.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=51

        Options:
          -l        List all possible keypress events
          -w        Wait for acknowledgment after sending each event
          -r        Treat arguments as raw event numbers instead of names
          -v        Verbose mode

        Advanced Options:
          -p  Pause  milliseconds after sending each event

        Note:   The keypress event names are case-insensitive
                NUM0 through NUM9 can be written as 0 through 9
                The default pause (unless specified) is 1000

sendkeyplus v0.9 beta
Copyright (c) 2007, tivo4mevo
All Rights Reserved.
Permission to use and distribute this software for non-commercial use
is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright notice and this
permission notice appear in all copies of the software, derivative works
or modified versions and any portions thereof, and that both notices appear
in supporting documentation.

See http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?p=287662 for more information.

/devbin/sendkey: invalid option -- a
    while executing
"exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait $evrc($key)"
    (procedure "SendKey" line 8)
    invoked from within
"SendKey $key"
    ("foreach" body line 8)
    invoked from within
"foreach key $cmds {
set index [lsearch "thumbsdn volup voldown chanup chandn slow advance" $key]
if {$index >= 0} {
set key [lindex "thumbsdown volume..."
    (procedure "MOD::action_sendkey" line 18)
    invoked from within
"$cmd $p1 $p2 $p3"
    (procedure "do_action" line 19)
    invoked from within
"do_action $action $chan $part $env 1"
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[mrpenguin]

try sending the cmd outside of twp, see what is done. if it bombs outside twp, go from there. Honestly, if it worked on an old ver, and bombs on the new,something with the app messed up I'd think

[jsmmd]

try sending the cmd outside of twp, see what is done. if it bombs outside twp, go from there. Honestly, if it worked on an old ver, and bombs on the new,something with the app messed up I'd think

all the commands work great from bash prompt

[tivo4mevo]

In v0.8 beta, the wait option took an argument, but in v0.9 beta, it does not. It never really handled the long form "-wait", but just incorrectly interpreted "ait" as an argument to the "-w" option.

Thus, I think you want to change this line

"exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait $evrc($key)"

to this

"exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -w $evrc($key)"

or perhaps even removing the wait option entirely, as webremote seems to only send one key at a time, so blocking on acknowledgment probably creates complications rather than doing good?

"exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey $evrc($key)"

[djl]

I also needed to replace all instances of "surfup" and "surfdown" in webremote.itcl with "channelup" and "channeldown". There were three occurrences of each.

[djl]

***EDIT*** First diff was backwards; corrected one attached

Here's a diff which rolls a few updates into webremote.itcl. It fixes the channel, exit and windows keys as well as removing the line that used to block it from working on versions > 4.0.
You'll also have to add the following lines to tvlib/tcl/tv/sendkey.tcl:

set evrc(exit) EXIT
set evrc(window) WINDOW

just put them at the bottom, below AOLTV. While you're editing the file, don't forget to update the line:

exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait $evrc($key)

Substitute the current location for sendkeyplus, and optionally remove the -wait flag.

[steve90071]

Thanks to all who have done the heavy lifting - I am now able to control my dtivo (hr10-250 running 6.3e and twp v071004) from tivowebplus!!!

In my case, there were three places where I had to modify:

exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait $evrc($key)

in /tvlib/tcl/tv/sendkey.tcl. They originally read:

exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait -waitTimeOut 2500 $evrc($key).

[lgkahn]

any idea using the new routerplus what the syntax would be to wait on a keypress now.. so that other code that looks for certain keypresses can be reenabled thanks

[SteveT]

I'm looking at adding support for this to TivoWebPlus 2.1. To those who've modified their copy of TWP to support it, how is it working? Any issues?

[djl]

After I made the modifications described in post #22 it worked perfectly on my Series 2. Some of the jpeg coordinates were wrong on the original, and a few keys had wrong names. I can't send the Window key to toggle closed-captions, but I would assume that's because tivovbi is taking precedence.

I'm looking at adding support for this to TivoWebPlus 2.1. To those who've modified their copy of TWP to support it, how is it working? Any issues?

[SteveT]

OK, I've changed TivoWebPlus 2.1b3 to check for /devbin/sendkey. If found, it sets on a flag which is now used throughout TWP to allow sendkey functions.

To use with versions later than 3.x, you need to:
1) install routerplus.o (per those instructions)
2) download the latest sendkeyplus (v1.0 from 10/20/2007)
3) rename sendkeyplus to sendkey, create a folder called /devbin, and copy the sendkey binary into this folder.

This allows Tivo's existing sendkey.tcl to work without changes, and should keep older versions working as now (not tested).

I also added djl's fixes from post 22 to webremote.

The changes have been placed into cvs and should be available in the next package release.

Thanks to all who contributed to making this available and testing it. Please let me know of any problems.

[unclemoosh]

3) rename sendkeyplus to sendkey, create a folder called /devbin, and copy the sendkey binary into this folder.

Should the /devbin directory be created in the root or in TivoWebPlus directory? I'm really having fits trying to get this working.

Thanks.

[SteveT]

Should the /devbin directory be created in the root or in TivoWebPlus directory? I'm really having fits trying to get this working.

Thanks.

in the root. Make sure the name is sendkey and it is executable.

Test by running "/devbin/sendkey tivo" at the command line, and check the output text for errors. Don't forget that sendkeyplus requires routerplus be installed at 6.x.

[unclemoosh]

Test by running "/devbin/sendkey tivo" at the command line, and check the output text for errors. Don't forget that sendkeyplus requires routerplus be installed at 6.x.

I get:
Unknown key: tivo/


EDIT: Nevermind. I rebooted and all seems well. Thanks.