[MMM-Dreambox] to connect a Dreambox or a Enigma2 Receiver (like VU or VU+) to MagicMirror and stream stations via omxplayer

Cr4z33

@axled the situation now is like in the below screenshot and I still don’t know how I am supposed to stream a channel (if I don’t have to specify its url). :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

evroom

All actions:

http://192.168.178.30:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-SERVICE-NEXT

http://192.168.178.30:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-SERVICE-PREV

http://192.168.178.30:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-PLAY

http://192.168.178.30:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-STOP

Result in:

Cannot GET /remote

AxLed

@evroom
How do you plan to interact with your MM?
I have a rotary encoder. Buttons or touch is also fine.
For the beginning you can use MMM-Remote-Control to send notifications.
I have to complete my Readme, that the sample links only work with MMM-Remote-Control

So install MMM-Remote-Control, open an browser, modify the links matching to your environment and you should be able to select channels and stream them.

Important: Try with SD Channels first, as for HD channels the mpg2 codec is needed.

AxLED

evroom

@axled
I was about to ask about this.
Suppose it works, how will I use it in practise?

I have a Pi with a monitor connected hanging in the kitchen.
No fancy mirror like many, with speech and buttons and PIRs.

So, basically no interaction.

I plan on getting speech running, but I have other projects running at this moment (for instance Homematic IP and ioBroker).

I will try to install MMM-Remote-Control and see if that will work.

AxLed

@Cr4z33
I dont know if it makes sense, to use a favorite list of services/stations/channels that wont fit on the screen of MM, as the list is to long.

Start streaming can be done by selecting one service/station/channel (by using yourmmip:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-SERVICE-NEXT for example) and than start streaming by (yourmmip:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-PLAY).

Do you have MMM-Remote-Control installed?
Se my previous answer to evroom.

AxLED

Cr4z33

@axled oh now I understand.
Thanks for the information.

However I don’t have MMM-Remote-Control and I rather prefer to control everything by voice commands (MMM-AssistantMk2).
Sorry, but then this module doesn’t suit my needs. :winking_face:

AxLed

@Cr4z33
You should be able to send notifications by voice commands also.
AxLED

AxLed

@evroom
Here is a screenshot of my Mirror

I have a PIR-Sensor (for turning screen on/off) and a rotary encoder connected (to the GPIO PINs of the Pi).

In the bottom right corner you see my “first” module MMM-Navigate which interacts with the rotary encoder.

So depending on the navigation menu i am able to:

swipe pages (i have four)
show Details to newsfeeds (opens website to the newsfeed)
adjust brightness
select dreambox channels
start/stop streaming dreambox channels
control the mirror (restart mm, shutdown, reboot)
and for the future: everything which can handle the MM notification system

AxLED

evroom

Okay, I have MMM-Remote-Control running and I can open the menu.
Now using:

http://192.168.178.30:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=DB-PLAY

I get this:

{"status":"success"}

Now I see a stream on my monitor !!

With DB-SERVICE-NEXT and DB-SERVICE-PREV I can scroll through the services list
Also gives

{"status":"success"}

But I cannot switch to another service with DB-PLAY.

And I have a side effect that it takes 3 or 4 services on my Dreambox.
I have the plugin InfoBarTunerState installed and I see that MM is trying to stream multiple services.

At this moment I see one stream on my MM monitor, but my Dreambox tells me there are 2 MM streams present (on 2 different services).

Here the OMXPlayer processes at this moment:

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi       28431 28259  0 18:06 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 320,180,1600,900  -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       28432 28431  0 18:06 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 320,180,1600,900 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       28455 28432 10 18:06 ?        00:02:50 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 320,180,1600,900 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       28522 28259  0 18:15 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 320,180,1600,900  -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:36F8:C8C:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       28523 28522  0 18:15 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 320,180,1600,900 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:36F8:C8C:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       28546 28523  3 18:15 ?        00:00:31 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 320,180,1600,900 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:36F8:C8C:3:EB0000:0:0:0:

evroom

Btw, is there a possibility to have the start, next, prev and stop URL’s configured in MMM-Remote-Control ?

evroom

Okay, rebooted in order to start fresh.

Now 1 stream.
Looks like one actual omxplayer active:

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi       29320 29185  0 18:39 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 0,0,480,320  -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       29321 29320  0 18:39 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 0,0,480,320 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:
pi       29344 29321 10 18:39 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 0,0,480,320 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:16:177A:C82:3:EB0000:0:0:0:

InfoBarTunerState also states there is one stream.

The will do for today.
Will do some more testing tomorrow.

Thanks a lot AxLed for the support so far !!

AxLed

@evroom
Good to hear you had success and thanks for your challenge with more than one bouquet 😂, helped debugging the module.

AxLED

evroom

@AxLed
I have opened 4 feature requests on GitHub.

To be honest, my MM is hanging a meter or so away from the TV, so I most probably will not make use of the module.
Navigating through the services list and starting & stopping a stream is not that comfortable
Although it might be practical to see on my MM what is currently playing and I might use it solely as a program guide.

Will be available though for some testing.

AxLed

Hi, if the to monitors are close together you can still view 2 different shows :-) .
I checked your 4 feature requests and added 2 of them in the module.
For the other two i can not promise, if they will be implemented.

AxLED

AxLed

@evroom
In your feature request, you wanted to select a bouquet (if there is more than one):

Okay.
Let’s say I have the bouquet “MagicMirror (TV)”, could there be an option to use this one, instead of the default “Favourites (TV)” ?
I assume “Favourites (TV)” is the default.

Please check the dev branch of my module.

Rename your MMM-Dreambox folder to _MMM-Dreambox (for example)
do a git clone --branch dev https://github.com/Ax-LED/MMM-Dreambox.git in your modules folder
add new parameters to your config.js, as descriped in readme. (see apibouquet and listmax).

Regards

AxLED

evroom

Hi @AxLed ,

Busy trying your updated module.
I am struggling a bit with it.

1/ I suppose I set
apibouquet: 1,
Is that correct ?
What does it do ?
When just enabling, then why not true or false to make it more clear?
Or do I set it to 1 for bouquet 1 and 2 for 2, etc?
Please explain.

2/ The parameter
listmax: 10,
is working, but after play or stop, it jumps to the bouquet name.

3/ On my install, when I do DB-PLAY, it starts the stream twice.
So, I have 2 omxplayer process-sets and it takes up 2 streams on my Dreambox.
EDIT: now streaming Das Erste HD. No other process-sets present.
Perhaps decoding takes to long and omxplayer is respawning.

4/ Even though I have employer processes, I do not see anything on my screen.
EDIT: now streaming Das Erste HD.
I think I have a local issue, as I cannot stream decoded content anymore.
My MPG2 license is still valid.
Perhaps a performance issue.

evroom

Example for observation/issue 3:

DB-PLAY:

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi        4190  4061  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4191  4190  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4214  4191  7 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4222  4061  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4223  4222  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4246  4223 13 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:

After a few seconds and when the stream is visible on the screen:

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi        4190  4061  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4191  4190  0 19:31 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi        4214  4191 10 19:31 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --win 0,625,590,957 -o both http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:19:283D:3FB:1:C00000:0:0:0:

AxLed

@evroom
here are some questions:
to 1: apibouquet expects a number (integer) and in java it starts with 0. If i use the xml-sample file of /web/getallservices you send me its in your case as follows:
0: Favourites (TV)
1: Nederland (TV)
2: Duitsland (TV)

to 2: i cant reproduce this behavior

to 3 & 4: try disabling some other modules, to find out if there is a intolerance beetween modules.

AxLED

evroom

to 1: thanks. Very clear.

to 2: does not happen always, or too fast to detect (I did ps manually).

to 3: did this, but does not help. I have think I have an issue that is related to my install only.

Thanks for the changes. It makes it more usable.

Cr4z33

@axled I want to give this module another try for some testing, but I still didn’t understand how am I supposed to stream a Dreambox channel in MM? :hushed_face: