[mythtv-users] How to check if a tuner is in use

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bill,

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 12:05:37 AM, you wrote:

> On 10/13/2014 04:28 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> ...
>> I saw, only your 'Inputs/Input' queries are not there with me.
>> (DisplayName, ScheduleOrder and LiveTVOrder)
>> How do I interpret the status codes.
>> I saw 0 = inactive, 7 = recording and -1 = Not connected.

> Unfortunately, for now you need to read the source and see
> that the enum starts at -1. But for your case, if the value
> is anything other than 0, the tuner isn't available.

> There's work in progress to change the values to translated
> text, so something meaningful (and in your chosen language
> would print. The change would be seen in 0.28 at best.

I've been fiddling around with your python script and already learned
a lot about python. I am trying to let it give the state of just one
card. I added an argument for the videodevice defaulting to
/dev/video0 and then get the id from the database. I also let the
hostname default to the local hostname:

if args.host:
        host = args.host
else:
        host = socket.gethostname()

Now I can't get the filtering of the output from the webpage. I tried:

for element in response.findall('Encoders/Encoder'):
        if element.findtext('Id') == cardid:
                print '%s' % (element.findtext('State'))

and

for element in response.findall('Encoders/Encoder'):
        id=element.findtext('Id')
        state=element.findtext('State')
        if id == cardid:
                print '%s' % (state)

but get nothing. What am I doing wrong?

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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