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

AxLed

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

Other observations (tested with Dreambox dm7020hd).
1/
When I start the Mirror, I no channel is selected.
Then when you do DB-PLAY as first remote command, the list on the Mirror will have a grey background (as if everything is selected) and nothing is streamed.
2/
When you do DB-PLAY, I get multiple streams.
I reported this before.
3/ After a while the selection of a channel disappears.
The selection sometimes is just a grey background and sometimes a grey background with a play button.
4/ My Dreambox has 2 tuners.
I probably see the “now playing” from tuner A, whilst tuner B is streaming.
As the selection disappears, I do not know which channel is streaming.

Here are some answers:
to 1: Thats true, if module is loaded no channel is selected. Normally you should select a channel first an then start streaming (by DB-PLAY)
to 2: I dont understand at which point you get multiple streams. If no channel was selected before?
to 3: Thats true, if a channel is selected, the background of the selection should be grey. The grey selection will be reseted (to black background), if a refresh of datas is done (duration depends on your refresh interval in config.js). The refresh is hardly to see on the mirror, as i dont do a update.dom, i am updating the relevant dom datas directly. The play symbol is shown if you send a DB-PLAY after selection, so you can see that streaming will start within the next seconds. Because after start of streaming the datas are updatet, the grey selection and the play symbols dissapear.
to 4: On my dreambox, if a start a stream on MM, the first line of the module now playing shows the channel i am streaming (if you dont defined the size of stream to full screen). I have no idea, what would be shown on now playing on a 2 tuner box.

Most of the issues can be fixed, but i would like to get the some other issues (see this thread) fixed first.

AxLED

evroom

@AxLed

Did git pull.

0|mm  | Starting node helper for: MMM-Dreamboxpi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Dreambox $ git status
On branch dev
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/dev'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Dreambox $ ls -alstr
total 112
 4 drwxr-xr-x 13 pi pi  4096 Jan 31 21:39 ..
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi  4096 Jan 31 21:39 translations
 8 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  7330 Jan 31 21:39 README.md
 8 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  7185 Jan 31 21:39 MMM-Dreambox-xml2json.js
48 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 45771 Jan 31 21:39 MMM-Dreambox_screenshot1.jpg
20 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 19015 Jan 31 21:39 MMM-Dreambox.js
 4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   821 Jan 31 21:39 MMM-Dreambox.css
 8 -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  5242 Feb  1 20:10 node_helper.js
 4 drwxr-xr-x  4 pi pi  4096 Feb  1 20:10 .
 4 drwxr-xr-x  8 pi pi  4096 Feb  1 20:19 .git

Restarted MM.

|mm  | Starting node helper for: MMM-Dreambox

No errors in the pm2 logs.

On the Mirror I see

Error

And a white line (in the MMM-Dreambox module area).

EDIT: Same behaviour for my Dreambox.

evroom

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

to 2: I dont understand at which point you get multiple streams. If no channel was selected before?

In fact I get 2 streams always.
When I send DB-PLAY immediately.
Or when I send DB-PLAY after selecting a service.

When I send DB-STOP both streams are stopped.

Most probably due to my 2 tuner box.
I have a 1 tuner VU+ solo, but there we are still debugging to get the services visible at all.

AxLed

@evroom

I did some modification to the dev branch.

Modified/fixed:

error if used Dreambox-IP with a port
errors showing up in node_helper.js

Now i can use my dreambox with a different port and the data requests (with defined port) and streaming (with port :8001) works correctly.

Can you please try with your tuners?

AxLED

evroom

@AxLed
With “apiBase: ‘http://192.168.178.28’”, I get “http:8001”.

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Dreambox $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi       30691 30252  2 23:09 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live http:8001/1:0:1:2F08:441:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi       30692 30691  0 23:09 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live http:8001/1:0:1:2F08:441:1:C00000:0:0:0:

BUT …
With “apiBase: ‘http://192.168.178.28:80’”, I get “http://192.168.178.28:8001” and streaming works.

pi@MagicPi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Dreambox $ ps -eaf | grep omxplayer | grep -v grep
pi       31023 30795  0 23:14 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c omxplayer  --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:1:2EF4:441:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi       31024 31023  0 23:14 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/omxplayer --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:1:2EF4:441:1:C00000:0:0:0:
pi       31047 31024  7 23:14 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live http://192.168.178.28:8001/1:0:1:2EF4:441:1:C00000:0:0:0:

Observations:

Streaming is working.
The first time DB-PLAY: one service only.

Changing services is not possible using DB-SERVICE-NEXT.

Stopping with DB-STOP, then DB-SERVICE-NEXT and then DB-PLAY: two streams again.

Got into a situation where DB-PLAY caused my second tuner (what I was seeing on my regular TV) changed channel to the selected service.

The “now playing” line still shows the service from the other tuner, but if you have a single tuner, then it will be difficult to change this.
Perhaps I will find something on this topic.

So, I guess that for a single Dreambox tuner everything works fine, but that there are odd behaviours when you have a multiple tuner (a dual tuner in my case).

I would concentrate now on getting it to work for VU+ devices.
If I could, I would help you, but I still fail to see where and how the parsing of the xml data is done.

AxLed

@evroom

I can fix the “http:8001” problem, if i find some time, so the module works for single tuner dreamboxes again.
If you use the module (dev branch) with VU+, what happens?
AxLED

Cr4z33

@AxLed sorry for not being so much available lately, but apart from work and mirror assembly (the ‘baby’ is going to born into the next days if everything goes well… :crossed_fingers_medium-light_skin_tone: ) I see that @evroom is much more skilled and suitable for the debugging. :grimacing_face:

I hope that everything will be sorted soon and thanks @AxLed for taking care into it.

evroom

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

f you use the module (dev branch) with VU+, what happens?

I still see ‘Error’ on the Mirror.
No errors in the pm2 logs.

evroom

@cr4z33 said in [MMM-Dreambox] to connect a Dreambox or a Enigma2 Receiver (like VU or VU+) to MagicMirror and stream stations via omxplayer:

I see that @evroom is much more skilled and suitable for the debugging.

Testing is no problem.
It is a pity I cannot help with real debugging.
Oddly enough I do programming for REST api’s on a professional level, but for that I use Perl.
Also puts me off a bit in going deeper into the MMM modules stuff, but I think that applies to more persons (8 hours a day behind the computer at work and sitting being that thing again in you spare time is sometimes too much :-) ).

Hope that the ‘baby’ will be a real baby and I wish you and your partner all the best.

evroom

@AxLed

I noticed that after ‘Error’ there was a short other message.
I had to set the refresh time to 1 second and to capture numerous time before I could capture 1 error message:

Error: null in http://192.168.178.47/web/about

It can be that there are more errors or just this one.

I will send you some xml files by mail.