[mythtv-users] Automation query - mythtv XML/:6544 docs?

Ken Bass kbass at kenbass.com
Sat Feb 12 20:31:03 UTC 2011


On 2/12/2011 3:25 PM, Peter Watkins wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:23:00PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> 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.
>> 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
> Thanks, this is a very timely suggestion -- I just hit the point in
> a script where I needed to figure out how long until the next recording.
>
> Is this port 6544 XML stuff documented somewhere?

 I just looked at it and it appears to be the same information that the
'Backend Status' of Mythweb uses. Therefore, the first Program listed
under the 'Scheduled' appears to be the next program that is going to be
recorded.



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