Play Sound command during an event

[brianw]

I have the latest 8.10 alpha up and running fairly well.  I have been playing with events and I wanted to play a sound on my N810 when motion is detected.  I added the "Play Sound" command to the motion event but I am a little confused by the first option #19 Data (Data).  #19 tooltip says I need a pointer to the memory block representing the sound file to play.  How do I determine the pointer?

Thanks,

-B

[darrenmason]

Brian,

I am not sure that you will be able to do what you are asking. The N810 only has the Orbiter running - therefore there is no linuxMCE device to play audio on it. I believe Play Sound command will only play a sound on a Media Director device. If it really requires a memory pointer then this command would seem only callable from plugin devices.

If you are trying to trigger something on your N810 then you may be restricted to a visual popup at the moment. Of course, you could create a DCE device that handles the command and get that compiled and running on the N810. Assumning that if orbiter can be compiled for N810 then a basic device should also be possible.

Regards
Darren

[brianw]

Thanks for the input Darren.  I have the popup working but I also wanted a sound to play in case I wasnt using it at the time.  I will look into creating a dce device for the N810 once I get everything else up and working.

-B

[tschak909]

darrenmason, please read the code before commenting...

The Play sound command is currently a stub in both the core orbiter, and the OrbiterLinux subclasses. Implement this, and it will work.

anybody want to?

-Thom