Request Category of currently running Recording

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Chelaz
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Request Category of currently running Recording

Post by Chelaz »

Hi all,

I want to realize something like an ambient light functionality depending on the category of the currently watched recording on mythfrontend.

What I need is a perl/python/bash script running on my raspberry pi which frequently requests the category of the running recording.

Can anyone help me to find the easiest api call to the mythfrontend (or backend)? What I tried:

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http://backend:6544/Status/xml
which shows me the title and the category of the LiveTV on any encoder. But if I am watching a recording (not LiveTV) then it does not appear in the status xml stream.

Can I use the Frontend API somehow?

Thanks and best regards
Michael
daraden
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Re: Request Category of currently running Recording

Post by daraden »

the place to start would be

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http://frontendip:6547/Frontend/GetStatus
you may need the security pin

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http://frontendip:6547/Frontend/GetStatus?pin=<yoursecuritypin>
check the state then:

for recordings:
grab the chanid and starttime

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]http://backendserverip:6544/drv/GetRecorded?ChanId=<chanid>&StartTime=<starttime>
grab the category and do stuff

For video:
grab the pathname and cut it down to only the filename(Strip out myth://Videos@Hostname/). spaces and special characters need to be escaped

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http://backendserverip:6544/Video/GetVideoByFileName?FileName=some%20Title.mkv
grab content type do suff
Chelaz
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Re: Request Category of currently running Recording

Post by Chelaz »

Dear daraden,

thanks for your description. In the meanwhile I already could implement my ambient light python script based on your hints.

Regards
Chelaz
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