[mythtv-users] Automation query

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/12/2011 12:10, Richard Morton wrote:
> On 12 February 2011 15:08, Ken Bass<kbass at kenbass.com>  wrote:
>> What API / techniques are available that would allow me to determine
>> that there are no recording currently being record on ANY/ALL my tuners.
>>
>> Is there a python method to determine this that I can use from a cron job?
>> Would the event system allow this?
> You could install the mythtv-status application; on ubuntu it is in a
> separate package

If hes going to parse the output from mythtv-status, he may as well 
forgo it and parse the same XML status page it does directly.  See:
http://<yourbackend>:6544/xml

With the Python bindings, there's a couple things you could do from the 
MythBE() class.  getRecorderList() returns the total number of 
recorders, while getFreeRecorderList() returns those that aren't in 
use.  If they don't match, one of them is in use.   You could use 
isRecording() directly on the recorder IDs returned by 
getRecorderList(), or you could use some other QUERY_RECORDER call.  You 
could run getRecordings() for a list of all recordings, and a recstatus 
of -10 (tuning) or -2 (recording) means a recorder is in use.  You could 
run getUpcomingRecordings() for a list of shows that will record, and 
check their start times to see if any will be in the near future.