[mythtv-users] Can commercial flagging be scheduled?
Hika van den Hoven
hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 00:13:19 UTC 2016
Hoi Hika,
Saturday, January 30, 2016, 11:54:09 PM, you wrote:
> Hoi Hika,
> Saturday, January 30, 2016, 11:10:18 PM, you wrote:
>> Hoi Mark,
>> Saturday, January 30, 2016, 8:02:13 AM, you wrote:
>>>> On 30 Jan 2016, at 12:43 pm, DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the responses. If I can schedule job queue start/end why would I need the script option?
>>>>
>>> The number one reason in my mind would be because it would stop any
>>> jobs running, not just commflag. However not having metadata lookup
>>> run in real time may not be significant either.
And a more generic one to toggle any of the 7 jobs. Next to Python you
also need the requests python module:
You can either run it through cron or link it to a system action when
you start/stop playing certain recordings that need all you CPU power.
You can activate/deactivate multiple jobs in one command
toggle_jobflag.py
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import argparse, socket, sys, traceback, requests
def read_commandline():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Toggle the allowance of the given job(s) to run on the given backend.',
formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument('-b', '--backend', type=str, required=True,
metavar='<hostname>', default=None, dest = 'backend',
help='backendend dns hostname/ip-address')
parser.add_argument('-p', '--back_port', type=int, required=False,
metavar='<portnr>', default=6544, dest = 'back_port',
help='the backend api portnumber, default is 6544')
parser.add_argument('-H', '--hostname', type=str, required=False,
metavar='<hostname>', default=None, dest = 'hostname',
help='The MythTV hostname if not equal to the dns-name')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--deactivate', required=False, default=[],
metavar='<job type>', dest = 'deactivate', action = 'append',
help='Give a job type to deactivate. You can add the option\nmore then ones.')
parser.add_argument('-a', '--activate', required=False, default=[],
metavar='<job type>', dest = 'activate', action = 'append',
help='Give a job type to activate. You can add the option\nmore then ones.\n' + \
'Possible job types are:\n' + \
' alljobs (to (de) activate all jobs\n' + \
' commflag\n metadata\n transcode\n' + \
' userjob1\n userjob2\n userjob3\n userjob4\n' + \
' the name you gave to one of the userjobs\n')
try:
return parser.parse_args()
except:
return
def post_api(url, postdata=None):
try:
headers = {'User-Agent':'0.27 Python Services API Client',
'Accept': 'application/json'}
url_request = requests.post(url, headers = headers, data = postdata)
return url_request.json()
except requests.ConnectionError:
sys.stderr.write('The host is not available!\n')
except:
sys.stderr.write('An unexpected error has occured:\n')
sys.stderr.write(traceback.format_exc())
def check_hostname(args):
url = 'http://%s:%s/Myth/GetHosts' % (args.backend, args.back_port)
host_list = post_api(url)['StringList']
if host_list == None:
return(False)
if args.hostname == None:
args.hostname =args.backend
for h in host_list:
if h.lower() == args.hostname.lower():
args.hostname = h
return(True)
else:
sys.stderr.write('The given Backend/Hostname: %s is not known!\n' % args.hostname)
return(False)
def check_jobname(args, job):
job_list = {'commflag': 'JobAllowCommFlag',
'metadata': 'JobAllowMetadata',
'transcode': 'JobAllowTranscode',
'userjob1': 'JobAllowUserJob1',
'userjob2': 'JobAllowUserJob2',
'userjob3': 'JobAllowUserJob3',
'userjob4': 'JobAllowUserJob4'}
if job.lower() in job_list.keys():
return job_list[job.lower()]
job_desc = {'UserJobDesc1': 'JobAllowUserJob1',
'UserJobDesc2': 'JobAllowUserJob2',
'UserJobDesc3': 'JobAllowUserJob3',
'UserJobDesc4': 'JobAllowUserJob4'}
for k, j in job_desc.items():
if get_setting(args, k, True).lower() == job.lower():
return j
sys.stderr.write('Unknown job type: %s\n' % job)
def get_setting(args, key, no_hostname = False):
url = 'http://%s:%s/Myth/GetSetting' % (args.backend, args.back_port)
if no_hostname:
postdata ={'Key': key}
else:
postdata ={'HostName': args.hostname,'Key': key}
reply = post_api(url, postdata)
if reply != None:
return reply['SettingList']['Settings'][key]
def put_setting(args, key, value, no_hostname = False):
url = 'http://%s:%s/Myth/PutSetting' % (args.backend, args.back_port)
if no_hostname:
postdata ={'Key': key, 'Value': value}
else:
postdata ={'HostName': args.hostname,'Key': key, 'Value': value}
reply = post_api(url, postdata)
if reply == None:
return False
return(reply['bool'] == 'true')
def main():
try:
# get the commandline parameters
args = read_commandline()
if args == None:
return(0)
if len(args.activate) == 0 and len(args.deactivate) == 0:
sys.stderr.write('You should at least give one job type to (de)activate\n')
return(1)
if 'alljobs' in args.activate:
args.activate = ['commflag', 'metadata', 'transcode', 'userjob1', 'userjob2', 'userjob3', 'userjob4']
args.deactivate = []
elif 'alljobs' in args.deactivate:
args.deactivate = ['commflag', 'metadata', 'transcode', 'userjob1', 'userjob2', 'userjob3', 'userjob4']
args.activate = []
# Check if the given hostname is known
if not check_hostname(args):
return(2)
# Check if the Flag is unset and adjust it
for job in args.activate:
job_name = check_jobname(args, job)
if job_name == None:
continue
job_setting = get_setting(args, job_name)
if job_setting != '1':
if not put_setting(args, job_name, '1'):
sys.stderr.write('The command returned False!\n')
else:
sys.stderr.write('Activated %s\n' % job)
else:
sys.stderr.write('No need to change %s!\n' % job)
# Check if the Flag is set and adjust it
for job in args.deactivate:
job_name = check_jobname(args, job)
if job_name == None:
continue
job_setting = get_setting(args, job_name)
if job_setting != '0':
if not put_setting(args, job_name, '0'):
sys.stderr.write('The command returned False!\n')
else:
sys.stderr.write('Deactivated %s\n' % job)
else:
sys.stderr.write('No need to change %s!\n' % job)
except:
sys.stderr.write('An unexpected error has occured:\n')
sys.stderr.write(traceback.format_exc())
return(99)
# and return success
return(0)
# end main()
# allow this to be a module
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())
Tot mails,
Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
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