[mythtv] Services API: Does Dvr/AddRecordSchedule work?

[Bill Meek]

On 10/13/2018 12:17 PM, John P Poet wrote:
> Good to know.  I had not thought of retrieving a template first.  That
> seems like a good approach.
> 
> Has anyone written a set of python tools for controlling Myth with the
> services API, that has been published somewhere?  The documentation is
> currently somewhat sparse, and examples might be helpful.

Hey John,

This was my attempt at a cookbook. It builds up from simple examples to a
full program with arguments. Since I don't speak fluent Python, I wanted
to show how to use the returned values from the API (and I'd guess that
you were using some of it.)

     https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Python_API_Examples

I've been looking at putting the Python Services API *next to* the existing
Python bindings. That's where mine is installed. I'm not clear on how to
incorporate it into the build process.

Unless we're living in parallel universes, you're using

     https://github.com/billmeek/MythTVServicesAPI

and that was my idea of a tool. My original plan was to create a library of
things that could be imported. Like: Capture.py/Content.py/Guide.py...Video.py.
Plus one Connection.py that the others used.

But they were essentially the same, all returning a dictionary with the returned
parameters. And so the more generic backend.send(...) is what I decided on.

I do have a tool just for testing (cleverly named 'api') and it's --help looks
like this:

$ api --help
usage: api [-h] [--debug] [--digest <user:pass>] [--host <host> [<host> ...]]
            --endpoint <ep> [--noetag] [--nogzip] [--oneline] [--port <port>]
            [--postdata <pd> [<pd> ...] | --rest <rest> [<rest> ...]] [--quiet]
            [--timeout <seconds>] [--usexml] [--version] [--wrmi]

Services API Tester

optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   --debug               output additional information (False)
   --digest <user:pass>  digest username:password
   --noetag              tell the backend not to return a ETag (False)
   --nogzip              tell the backend not to return gzipped data (False)
   --oneline             print the response on one line, no formatting (False)
   --port <port>         back/frontend port (6544)
   --postdata <pd> [<pd> ...]
                         Tag=Value *
   --rest <rest> [<rest> ...]
                         Tag=Value *
   --quiet               don't print any responses (False)
   --timeout <seconds>   seconds to wait for a response (10)
   --usexml              ask for an XML response (False)
   --version             show program's version number and exit
   --wrmi                allows postdata to be sent to the server (False)

required arguments:
   --host <host> [<host> ...]
                         server hostname(s) or IP address(s)
   --endpoint <ep>       endpoint to test

* E.g. Id=1 TitleRegEx=\*News\*. Default values are in ()s.

-- 
Bill