Working ECP input example?

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Does anyone has a working example or ecp for inputs?

Im trying to send a message from java or python to my channel while its running.

my code so far would be something like this:

    while (true)
        msg = wait(0, port)
		
		print "type(msg): ",type(msg)		
		print "msg.GetMessage(): ",msg.GetMessage()
		
		if (type(msg) = "roInput")
			print "Got the message: ", msg.url
		end if
		
	end while

keypresses up, down, querying apps and home key are working as expected according to the ecp manual, but i cant get any custom message across my channel, it just doesnt show up while waiting for input from the remote…

please help :disappointed_face:

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The documentation is indeed cryptic.

You need to create an roInput object, call SetMessagePort on it, and look for events of type “roInputEvent”.

http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ … olServices

The external control server places these name-value pairs into a BrightScript associative array and passes them directly through to the currently executing channel script via a Message Port attached to a created roInput object.
…
Messages of type roInputEvent have a GetInfo() method that will obtain the associative array.

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“adrianc1982” wrote:
Does anyone has a working example or ecp for inputs?

Sub Main ()
    inputObject = CreateObject ("roInput")
    port = CreateObject ("roMessagePort")
    inputObject.SetMessagePort (port)
    While True
        msg = Wait (0, port)
        If Type (msg) = "roInputEvent"
            info = msg.GetInfo ()
            Print info
        EndIf
    End While
End Sub

The trick to sending an ECP input request is to ensure that you use the HTTP POST verb (not GET), and put the arguments in the QUERY STRING (NOT in the request body). This is a non-conventional practice. Normally, if you have query string arguments with no message body, you’d use a GET request; if you wanted to use a POST request, you’d put the arguments in the body. However, Roku chooses to do things differently, for whatever reason, and you have to make sure you use a POST with a query string and an empty message body.

In Python, for example:

import urllib.parse
import requests

params = {'a': 123, 'b':'Hello, World!'}

r = requests.post ('http://192.168.0.6:8060/input?' + urllib.parse.urlencode (params))

BrightScript Debugger> ------ Running ------
a: 123
b: Hello, World!

Note also that even if an argument had an integer value, it will be received as a roString in your BrightScript code.

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Thanks a lot you both, i will try this tomorrow.

Really the documentation is okay, the lack of an example is what fails. For whatever reason i never thought of calling a roInput object..

Thanks! I will report back!