DevelopWDTVExtPlugin

Develop - WDTV Ext's Plugin

WDTV Ext allow to add custom plugins/extensions to WDlxTV firmware.

All plugins start with Javascript file.

Filename

To load your plugin, the first Javascript filename needs to ends with ".plugin.js".

Event

Menu Event

Variable

• menuitem
  • name - Menu name
  • title - Menu displayed title
  • image - Path to menu displayed icon
  • focusedImage - Path to selected menu icon
  • visible - Visible or not

Event

YourPlugin.prototype.doBuildMenus = function() { }

YourPlugin.prototype.onMenuSelect = function(menuItem){ }

YourPlugin.prototype.onMenuDeselect = function(menuItem) { }

Page Event

Variable

• page
  • markupFileName - OSD XML Filename
  • extraContent - XML Content to append the original XML File
  • isMediaListPage
  • selectedMedia
    • name
    • folder
    • path
  • setParam(paramName, value)
  • getParam(paramName)

Event

YourPlugin.prototype.onPageCreated = function(page){ }

YourPlugin.prototype.onPageEnter = function(page){ }

YourPlugin.prototype.onPageKey = function(page, key){ }

YourPlugin.prototype.onPageLeave = function(page){ }

YourPlugin.prototype.onPageTimer = function(page){ }

Getting Started...

I will try to explain here how to start developing WDTVExt plugins. I'm by no means a 'programmer' and learned javascript just recently while dicovering WDTVExt. So if I'm doing thins wrong here, please correct me.

What can we do with WDTVExt? (v0.23.5)

• File [1]
  • read and write files (can also be used to execute shell commands and retrieve the output)
• XML [2]
  • parse/manipulate XML content
• Curl
  • fetch web content with curl
• Page Control
  • add extra XML content
  • introduce new @@variables to page
  • read all @@variables from page
  • write all @@variables to page
  • force redraw of page
  • react to keys pressed on remote
• Menu Control
  • add new menu items
  • add new submenu item
  • maniplulate menu and submenu items (title, image, focusedImage, handler, ...)

What can't we do with WDTVExt? (v0.23.5)

• create entire custom pages
• create menu items that link to a folder or file
• create setup pages

Now, let's start creating our first WDTVext plugin: Example.plugin.js

Example Plugin

Basic Plugin Skeleton

Every Plugin strats with some basic plugin constructor:

// all traces both trace and traceln will output in /tmp/dmaosd.log (or /tmp/wdtvext.log)
traceln("Plugin.Example: Start loading Example plugin")

function ExamplePlugin(path) {
        this.rootPath = path;
        traceln("Plugin.Example:   base path is " + this.rootPath);
}

// chain ExamplePlugin with proper inheritance - classical in javascript
ExamplePlugin.prototype = new Plugin();
ExamplePlugin.prototype.constructor = ExamplePlugin;

//
// our later to develop code and functions will
//
// go here, left blank for now
//

// create our plugin with baseParg pointing to current script path
// global variables scriptName, scriptLocation and scriptFullPath are available, no need to do the following
ExamplePlugin.instance = new ExamplePlugin(scriptPath);

// register our plugin with WDTVext
Plugin.registerPlugin(ExamplePlugin.instance);

traceln("Plugin.MediaFolder: End loading MediaFolder plugin");

All occurances of ExamplePlugin are of course to be substituted with the name of your plugin.