[mythtv-users] Converting scripts to not use the database directly

[Mike Bibbings]

On 01/11/14 01:17, Mike Rice wrote:
> Over the years I've developed the bad habit of changing things in the 
> database directly or using scripts to do it.  After the recent 
> discussion about using an embedded database I decided to try to get 
> rid of these scripts and refrain from editing the database.
>
> So far I've replaced a recording_started bash script with a perl 
> script using the bindings.  That went pretty well but I was only 
> accessing data and not updating anything.
>
> Next problem: I have channels that I need to toggle the visibility of 
> at certain times of the year.  These are channels that show hockey 
> part of the year and baseball other part.  Assuming I only subscribe 
> to one and not the other I need them to go away for awhile.
>
> I assume this can be done manually with the channel editor but I don't 
> normally have a keyboard attached and rather do it with a script.  
> Looks like I can do it with mythweb too.  A nice script I can run a 
> few times a year would be easier to me.
>
> Anyone have a script to do this that doesn't modify the database 
> directly?  Or can someone point me to an existing script that can 
> change the attributes of a channel?  Or some info on how to do this in 
> general?
>
>
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I think the general approach would be to use Mythtv Services API.
See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Services_API

In particular, to change the visible flag you could use 
Channel/UpdateDBChannel API
Note that the documentation on these API is sparse in some cases.

Mike

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