Jumpy - Jump into Python (and onto XBMC)
Jumpy (Java Underlay for Modules in PYthon) is a framework for scripts or other external processes to plug into PS3 Media Server (or its cousin UMS) and mainly
- add folders and media items to the xmb.
- act as user-defined external players.
The API is accessible from python via jumpy's python module, or from other languages via system calls. Interaction is through a localhost socket managed by py4j.
Jumpy began with my having grown tired of occasionally poaching stuff 'by hand' from xbmc addons for use in PMS, and deciding to see if I could mock the xbmc plugin API itself so as to run these addons under PMS as-is. The result is Jumpy plus jumpy-xbmc, an included set of python modules to 'jump' the xbmc addons.
Jumpy-xbmc works with most xbmc video addons: Hulu, Free Cable, Al Jazeera, PBS, Academic Earth, YouTube, and many more. Addons are 'mostly' functional in the sense that all content is shown, but interactive features that require user input are inactive.
Jumpy itself is general-purpose, of course, and you can use it to plug your own scripts/commands, python or other, into PMS as well.
Links
Building
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Place or symlink the following dependencies in 'lib' before running ant:
- ums.jar (universalmediaserver.com)
- py4j0.9.jar (py4j.sourceforge.net)
- ini4j-0.5.2.jar (ini4j.sourceforge.net)
- commons-exec-1.1.jar (commons.apache.org/exec)
- winp-1.14.jar (winp.kohsuke.org)