Plugins - how to?

[Lou1z]

hi,
i can see the plugins folder etc and have goldrush installed as per instructions and it works well.

trying to use announcement plugin which is just a perl script. where on earth do i put it and how do i run it? can't find any info anywhere?

cheers

[ceejay]

Read the notes here

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerPlugins

If you need more help you'll need to specify which version of the server you are using as it makes a difference....

[Lou1z]

hi, thanks for the reply. i did read that and i have installed plugins before. however, this one is a perl script and i can't see how to run it.

[ceejay]

When you say a perl script, do you mean a standalone perl script? If so thats not a plugin.

If its a perl module "pluginname.pm" then you can just put it in the plugins directory if you are using 6.5.x

Can you indicate where you got the plugin from?

[Nostromo]

Weren't they supposed to make plugins more user-friendly in 7.0? Or maybe it didn't make the cut for the 7.0 release? No biggie as far as I'm concerned, mind you.

[bpa]

AFAICT the announcement script is not a plugin but a script you run when you want an announcement to appear on an SB display.

It uses the CLI interface to put a message on the screen and so you should run this script when the event you want to announce has happened - e.g mail arrived.

The Plugin architecture has been improved in SC 7.0 with proper standardised organisation of a plugin package - I think additional functionality to assist the installation plugins was postponed until after 7.0 was released.

[Lou1z]

its squeeze centre 7 that i'm running. i've placed the script announcement06.pl in the plugins directory and restarted but to no avail.
anybody got this running under v7?

[radish]

Like bpa said, the announcement script is _not_ a plugin, it's a standalone script you have to run when you want to show something on the player. For example you could configure your email client to run it every time you got a new email. But on it's own it won't do anything.

[mherger]

Plugins - how to?

> its squeeze centre 7 that i'm running. i've placed the script
> announcement06.pl in the plugins directory and restarted but to no
> avail.

This is not a plugin, but a standalon script which must be executed using
perl. www.activestate.com has perl for Windows.

Michael


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[Lou1z]

ah... gotcha. so i need to install perl for it to run then? i assummed it would just run when placed into a directory doh!