Notify of Played Item

[nutt318]

I was wondering if its possible to have Subsonic send an email when a movie/tv show is being played. Just would like to know when someone is using subsonic and my bandwidth. I know I can view this within the subsonic who is playing what but I'd rather it send me an email.

Anyways if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

[ytechie]

I know how to get subsonic to trigger anything when a song is played, but I don't know off-hand how to send an email.

Your best bet is a php script. If you get a php script set up to send an email, we can get it working with subsonic in no time!

[nutt318]

Oh, well I've got a php script I've used in the past. Let me find it and I'll post the code here if you need it.

[ytechie]

Is it hosted? I don't know how jetty handles php.

I know this may sound crazy, but if you can find a way to send an email by adding parameters to the url, (like a GET request), I could trigger it very very easily.

[nutt318]

I have it installed on my server at home. So I could use my ISP's smtp relay for sending messages as well.

[ytechie]

How do you make the script work? Let's get this started!

[nutt318]

So how do you get it to trigger a .php file if a movie/tv show is played?

I've got 2 .php files that should do the trick.

[ytechie]

Well, you have to put the the trigger in the playAddDownload.jsp file if you only want it to trigger on movies/TV shows. Here is the part of that file that we will be editing:

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    <c:choose>
        <c:when test="${param.video}">
            <sub:url value="/videoPlayer.view" var="videoUrl">
                <sub:param name="path" value="${param.path}"/>
            </sub:url>
            <a href="${videoUrl}" target="main">
                <img src="<spring:theme code="playImage"/>" alt="<fmt:message key="common.play"/>" title="<fmt:message key="common.play"/>"></a>
        </c:when>
        <c:otherwise>
            <a href="javascript:noop()" onclick="top.playlist.onPlay('${path}');">
                <img src="<spring:theme code="playImage"/>" alt="<fmt:message key="common.play"/>" title="<fmt:message key="common.play"/>"></a>
        </c:otherwise>
    </c:choose>

More specifically,

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<a href="${videoUrl}" target="main">

Just write a javascript script at the top of the page, and insert the ol' "onclick='yourFunction()'.

That's all there is to it.

I actually have it running a script when a video is played. However, I have the script in the playlist.jsp file, so I just reference it using "onclick='top.playlist.myFunction()'".

Hope this helps!

[nutt318]

Ok, so back to this post again.

I'm not sure if I should use java script to send the email or have JavaScript call a .php file to send the email.

Also I'm not sure what file to actually edit and want to try and get this figured out.

Thanks!

[nutt318]

So I've got this and it sorta works except for it pops open my default mail client, anyone know of a way to have it send the email behind the scenes?

Also maybe include the video being watched along with the username of whos playing the content.

The code thats at the top of playAddDownload.jsp

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<script>
function sendMail() {
    var link = "mailto:me@example.com"
             + "&subject=" + escape("This is my subject")
             + "&body=" + escape("myText")
    ;

    window.location.href = link;
}
</script>


The code that is executed on the clicking of play

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<a href="${videoUrl}" target="main" onclick="sendMail()">


[ytechie]

Sending email behind the scenes was always sort of a mystery for me. In some languages it is easy to do (PHP), but in others, very hard.

[nutt318]

I've got a .php page loaded on my site that when you access it, it will send an email.

Do you know of a way to have a javascript function call or execute a webpage without it actually being displayed? If so then I think I can get it working. However I'm sure there is a better way to accomplish this. Or if I could put PHP code within the .jsp file, which I dont think is possible.

[nutt318]

Got it figured out thanks to some help of a co-worker of mine. Anyways I posted the how to in the tutorial section

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