[mythtv-users] using mythtv as clockradio

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/21/2016 06:26 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Michael,
>
> Thursday, January 21, 2016, 7:36:15 AM, you wrote:
>
>> On 01/20/2016 10:33 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> OK I looked further. The settings must be requested from the backend:
>>> <backend>:6544/Myth/GetSetting?HostName=<frontend>
>>> gives me whole list of settings and their values. Among them:
>>> 'WatchTVGuide' with a value of 1.
>>>
>>> According to the wiki I could directly request the one value with:
>>> <backend>:6544/Myth/GetSetting?HostName=<frontend>&Key=WatchTVGuide
>>> but no luck, it returns no value:
>>>
>>> <SettingList version="1.0" serializerVersion="1.1">
>>>      <HostName>pc-Myth</HostName>
>>>      <Settings>
>>>         <String>
>>>            <Key>WatchTVGuide</Key>
>>>            <Value/>
>>>         </String>
>>>      </Settings>
>>> </SettingList>
>> And what do you get when you send a GetSetting for a boolean setting
>> whose data is false (opposite of pc-Myth's WatchTVGuide data)?  And for
>> ones that have, for example, a string type (such as Theme)?
> If I query the full list I see AlwaysOnTop = 0
> If I do: <backend>:6544/Myth/GetSetting?HostName=pc-Hika&Key=AlwaysOnTop
>
> <SettingList version="1.0" serializerVersion="1.1">
>     <HostName>pc-Hika</HostName>
>     <Settings>
>        <String>
>           <Key>AlwaysOnTop</Key>
>           <Value/>
>        </String>
>     </Settings>
> </SettingList>
>
> If I query the full list I see AudioOutputDevice = ALSA:pulse
> If I do: <backend>:6544/Myth/GetSetting?HostName=pc-Hika&Key=AudioOutputDevice
>
> <SettingList version="1.0" serializerVersion="1.1">
>     <HostName>pc-Hika</HostName>
>     <Settings>
>        <String>
>           <Key>AudioOutputDevice</Key>
>           <Value/>
>        </String>
>     </Settings>
> </SettingList>
>
> Etc., Etc

Ah, then it's almost definitely that pc-Hika is not your HostName. Check 
your config.xml (the one being used by the backend, as reported in the 
backend log in the line "Using configuration directory = ..." to see if 
it's using something else.  It may be something like 
pc-Hika.<domainname> or--my guess--if it seems right (either not 
specified by LocalHostName override in config.xml or is specified as 
pc-Hika), try using the all lowercase pc-hika.

You/your script can use http:<hostname>:6544/Myth/GetHosts to see what 
host identifiers are in the database to find the one most like what you 
expect.  I'm not sure if you can say that it should always be the 
all-lowercase version--I'd guess that it won't always be all lowercase.

As for the case sensitivity, see https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12320 .

Mike