Perl script for Xchat to show whats going on in Pithos

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Perl script for Xchat to show whats going on in Pithos

Save this to ~/.xchat2/pithosplayer.pl and make it executable

in xchat, run it as

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/pit_play

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#!/usr/bin/perl

## pithosplayer.pl
## Perl script for Xchat to show whats going on in Pithos


use strict;
use Net::DBus;

# Pithos XChat script
# (c) Copyright 2014 - VSIDO/VastOne>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

my $script_name        = "Pithos XChat";
my $script_version     = " 0.0.6";
my $script_description = "Displays the current Pithos playing song in XChat.";
my $bus = Net::DBus->session;
#check for Pithos on Dbus
pit_live();

# message string
my $playing ="is listening to"; #replace with your own message

Xchat::register($script_name,$script_version,$script_description,"");

Xchat::print("Loaded \002".$script_name.$script_version."\003:");
Xchat::hook_command("pit_start", "pit_live");
Xchat::hook_command("pit_play", "pit_play");

#print "/me utilise $script_name $script_version \n";

sub pit_play{
if (pit_run()){
my $service = $bus->get_service('net.kevinmehall.Pithos');
my $object = $service->get_object('/net/kevinmehall/Pithos', 'net.kevinmehall.Pithos');
my $info= $object->GetCurrentSong;
# hash keys are : album, artist, disc, length, title, track
# $info hash contains the keys value above. you can change below to display information you need. keep "me" (command will generate the slash).
Xchat::command "me $playing $info->{artist} - $info->{title} - from the album $info->{album} playing in Pithos";
}
}


sub pit_live{
my $localbus = Net::DBus->find;
my $localservice = $localbus->get_service("org.freedesktop.DBus");
my $localobject = $localservice->get_object("/org/freedesktop/DBus");
my $gtrouver=0;
  foreach (@{$localobject->ListNames}) {
    if (m/pithos/){
      Xchat::print "found pithos\n";
      $gtrouver=1;
      last;
    }
    }
 
}

sub pit_run{
my $localbus = Net::DBus->find;
my $localservice = $localbus->get_service("org.freedesktop.DBus");
my $localobject = $localservice->get_object("/org/freedesktop/DBus");
my $gtrouver=0;
  foreach (@{$localobject->ListNames}) {
    if (m/pithos/){
      #Xchat::print "found pithos\n";
      $gtrouver=1;
      last;
    }
    }
    unless ($gtrouver){
Xchat::print "You need to restart pithos use pit_start.\n";
}
  return $gtrouver;
}

[jedi]

Much appreciated VastOne!