Search functionality explained

[zoster]

[sombragris]

Do you know if there is any chance to add new criteria? For example changing "title" to "Artist" in order to allow diferent searches to be conducted.

[zoster]

The music and pictures search has some additional attributes but they are all hardwired. What you could do is to come up with some sort of tag system like "a: <search term>" to search for artists. The parsing would be up to your search implementation.

[sombragris]

[avkiev]

How to execute (emulate... force...) "Search" ?
Can I in my plugin create some folder (or item) with name "Run Search" with such property: pressing Enter on it - equivalent to pressing "Search" button on remote ?

[mad_ady]

@avkiev: There are 2 ways of doing it (assuming you don't want to test it by pressing search on the remote):

1. Use a web browser and navigate to http://&lt;your.wdtv.ip&gt;/umsp/umsp-test.php. Navigate to your plugin and if search is implemented you'll see a search box on your page and you can test the search functionality really easily
2. You can implement an item that when called would pass a special argument to your UMSP script (something like doSearch=xxx). Then, on the server side you can test for this and call your search function. But beware - you can't ask for user text in this step, since the OSD will not display a keyboard.

Hope this helps.

[avkiev]

[avkiev]

The solution is: exec("echo E > /tmp/ir_injection");
E - it is Search
Can't try it now, but I hope it''ll works

[mad_ady]

) Clever. You might need to run it through sudo, since apache is a different user and might not have the necessary privileges.

Question - why do you want to do that? What's wrong with the search button?

[avkiev]