Premise Sirius...ly

[chucklyons]

One of the modules that has been a standard for our Premise installation is John's Kenwood DT-7000s Sirius xdo. My wife likes her Sirius Smooth Jazz (Watercolors), while I...well back to the module

The challenge I had was I wanted to display what was playing on Sirius, but if Iwas playing MP3s, I wanted to see the same type of information on the touchpanel. So in Modules->AutomationBrowser->MediaZonePanel->MediaZoneEx->GetTrack, I modified it to this:

Output = ""

if not this.NowPlaying is nothing and not this.PlayMode is nothing then
 strNowPlaying = this.NowPlaying.DisplayName
 if Len(strNowPlaying) > 60 then
  strNowPlaying = Left(strNowPlaying, 60)
  strNowPlaying = strNowPlaying & "..."
 end if
 'let's display John's Sirius descriptions - cl
 if this.nowplaying.description <> "" then
 Output = Output & "Listening to " & this.content.displayname & "'  " & strNowPlaying
 else
 Output = output & "Listening to " & this.nowplaying.artist & "-  " & this.Nowplaying.album & "<BR>" 
 output = output & "Track:  " & this.nowplaying.trackname
 end if
else

 Output = Output & ""
end if


method.Output = Output

In Modules->AutomationBrowser->MediaZonePanel->MediaZoneEx->GetContent I modified it to this:

Output = ""

if not this.Content is nothing then
 if not this.NowPlaying is nothing then
 'let's display John's Sirius descriptions - cl
 if this.nowplaying.description <> "" then
  output = Output & "Playing:  " & this.Nowplaying.Description
 end if
 else
  if this.NowPlaying.DisplayName <> this.Content.DisplayName then
   Output = Output & "Current Media: " & this.Content.DisplayName
  end if
end if

else
 Output = Output & "Please Select Something to Listen To"
end if

method.Output = Output

Like most of my stuff, nothing startling. 123's Minibrowser code gave me the clues how to manipulate the Track/Content information while John's excellent code gave me the means to be able to do it; putting all of the Sirius Content 'now playing' information ino the description property was brilliant and made this really easy. Even for me!

Next is to modify the minibrowser to give me the Sirius information...

Different question, if anyone is home...does the SRH2000 use anything like the same protocol as the DT-7000? I suspect not (AudioVox vs Kenwood)...