RE: Winamp integration with Homeseer

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Paul

could you send me both please mate. btw it sounds like you sank a few on
the
London Meet. Let me know when the next one is please.

Cheers
Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 June 2001 21:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Winamp integration with Homeseer
>
>
> Deep Joy!
>
> I've been squirelling away for the last few days trying to get some
nice
> tight integration between Homeseer & Winamp, seeing as Homeseer
only
> directly integrates with Windows media player.... (I didn't want
> to switch
> to using WMP as my player of choice for my Jukebox)
>
> I'm happy to report that after a few days of plagiarism, hair
> pulling, and
> trial & error, I've written a small, fast .EXE that uses the COM
> interfaces
> of both programs to provide a communication channel between them, that
> triggers a Homeseer Event whenever certain actions occur in Winamp...
>
> The winamp actions that trigger the event are:
> Play,
> Pause,
> Stop,
> Prev,
> Next,
> Playlist advancing,
>
> All regardless of how these winamp actions are caused. -
> basically anything
> that causes a change in the status of the currently playing track
> triggers
> the Homeseer event...
>
> Currently I have it set up to do the following:
>
> Whenever a track starts playing in winamp, A virtual device (W1),
> is set to
> display the player transport status, artist name, and track name.
> The player
> transport status can be one of "Playing" "Paused",
or "Stopped", and
> whenever it changes, the virtual device status is updated instantly.
>
> Whenever any of the above occurs, a line is written to the HS
> log, showing
> the date/time, artist & track names, player status, track number
in the
> playlist, and total number of tracks in the playlist.
>
> Whenever the track name changes in Winamp, Homeseer announces it
> by TTS. So,
> as I play through a playlist, each track is announced just as it
begins
> playing. (couple this with one of the various plug-ins that
automatically
> insert a small delay between tracks, and it doesn't even have to
> speak over
> the top of the music)...
>
> Homeseer is obviously therefore always aware of what Winamp is doing,
and
> can use this in it's logic for other events/scripts etc. - EG it
> can pause
> the player to make the "there is someone at the front door"
announcement,
> and resume playing once it has announced....
>
> It's a bit rough & ready at the moment, but I've been running it
> on three of
> my machines here for a couple of days now, and it is working pretty
much
> flawlessly...
>
> If anyone wants it, I'm happy to send a copy of either (or both) the
.EXE
> and the source code... - I'm sure some of you guys who are programmers
by
> trade (I'm not) would be able to make a far better job of it than
> I have so
> far....
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
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