I'm running Kindle OS 5.17.0 on a Kindle Signature 12th Generation and found that the following can be done to send/receive custom lipc events:
To send a custom event:
where:
Example:
To receive and process the event above:
To send a custom event:
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lipc-send-event aaa.bbb.ccc event_name1 -s "somestring" lipc-send-event aaa.bbb.ccc event_name2 -i # |
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aaa-bbb-ccc is a "source" for the event aaa is a custom domain (I used "com") bbb is package name ccc is an app name event_name1/event_name2 are event names somestring is some text that you want to pass along with the event # is an integer |
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lipc-send-event com.mypackage.myapp myevent -s "my event data" |
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lipc-wait-event -m com.mypackage.myapp playing 2>/dev/null | while read event do # $event contains all of the event details in the form: # # source name data # # where: # # data will be enclosed in quotes if a string, and not if a numeric value # # We cannot use IFS substitution because the data # may include spaces. Therefore, we just use cut. source=$(echo "${event}" | cut -d ' ' -f1) name=$(echo "${event}" | cut -d ' ' -f2) data=$(echo "${event}" | cut -d ' ' -f3-) case "${event}" in "com.mypackage.myapp myevent"*) echo "source = ${source}, name = ${name}, data = ${data}" ;; esac |
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