[enhancement] Run process when idle

[BartOtten]

It would be great when we could set one or more proces(ses) that runs when XBMC is inactive. For exampe transmission-daemon. This can be done multiple ways, but I guess the next ideas would be the easiest:

Idea 1:

• poll the cpu usage
• start process when CPU usage is below 'X' (start-deamon will ignore when process already runs)
• stop process when CPU usage is above 'Y' (start-deamon will ignore when process already runs)

Maybe some sort of 'average value in 10 seconds' would be nice.

Idea 2:

• use the screensaver option from XBMC

Maybe usefull info: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=141078

Regards,
Bart

[CurlyMoo]

Seems like a great function to build, looking forward to the pull request :)

[BartOtten]

Hahaha, currently I am in the process of speeding up browsing in large
libraries (incl Fanart). Keep it open for the time being.

[Koenkk]

I can try patching XBMC so it executes a command when it goes out and in to 'screensaver mode'.

[CurlyMoo]

This should be done as a service and not by patching the core of XBMC. Some suggestions of such a service is already given on our forum.

[belese]

I can try patching XBMC so it executes a command when it goes out and in to 'screensaver mode'.

It already exist, as i talk with curlymo before, could do it in a next version of xbian-config-python, and set a 'runmode' for each service (always, screensaver on, video off)

[CurlyMoo]

set a 'runmode' for each service (always, screensaver on, video off)

+1

[OnceUponALoop]

Why not just create a cron job that checks if xbmc is idle using JSON

Example:

# Check if XBMC is in idle mode
isIdle=`curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -i -X POST -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "XBMC.GetInfoBooleans", "params": { "booleans": ["System.ScreenSaverActive "] }, "id": 1}' http://xbmc:8080/jsonrpc | grep result | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/"\|:\|}//g'`

# If XBMC is idle send a keypress to wake it so Advanced Launcher can issue the maximize command
if $isIdle ; then
   #Take action
fi

[CurlyMoo]

Because that requires additional resources while a service inside XBMC does not.

[mk01]

this functionality is now package xbian-xbmc-bridge