Add user job arguments for %season% and %episode%

[skinah]

If this is already supported I could not see it in the WIKI here https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Jobs
I would find this feature very handy for writing my own scripts, should be easy to add. PLEASE ? thanks.

%season% would give the number of the season.
and
%episode% would give the number of the episode.

Edited to suggest two separate arguments to allow more flexible use than a single argument.

[PhilB]

Could you work out season and episode from startime and channelid with a bit of curl, API, grep and sed?

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#!/bin/bash
#call with StartTime and ChanId
echo "Startime is $1   Chanid is $2"
ALL=`curl -s 127.0.0.1:6544/Dvr/GetRecorded?StartTime=$1\&ChanId=$2`

SEASON=`echo $ALL | sed "s/></>\n</g" | grep 'Season' | sed "s!<[^>]*>!!g"`
echo season is $SEASON

EPISODE=`echo $ALL | sed "s/></>\n</g" | grep 'Episode' | sed "s!<[^>]*>!!g"`
echo episode is $EPISODE

Phil

[bill6502]

Skinah,

At least in 0.28-pre %SEASON% and %EPISODE% work already.

I didn't test, but I thought upper case was required. Obviously, mythmetadatalookup
must have completed 1st (at least over here.)

[skinah]

Great, thanks for the good news that the feature is added. I'm using 0.27 Stable so will have to check out the 0.28 soon. I'm currently doing it with a MySQL lookup, but it would be much nicer to use the job arguments. I'll post my script for others to use once it passes enough testing on my system.

[bill6502]

I think they were added in 0.25. I'd try before upgrading to 0.28-pre.
Did you try %SEASON% and %EPISODE% in 0.27 and find that
they didn't work?

[skinah]

No I did not try as it was not documented in the wiki I linked in my first post, plus I also did a through google to try and find if someone had written about it. After finding nothing and all scripts were using MySQL lookups to fetch the information I figured it was not added since it was easy to fetch from the database directly. I'll try it this evening and see if it works as that means my script will not need editing to have the password added in.

[bill6502]

The Wiki got updated yesterday, just FYI.

[skinah]

I can confirm it is working in 0.27 both %SEASON% and %EPISODE% work. Thanks for the help and also updating the wiki. Been using mythtv for over 6 years now and love it.