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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bill,

Thursday, October 16, 2014, 12:38:02 AM, you wrote:

> On 10/15/2014 05:04 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 15/10/14 21:53, Bill Meek wrote:
> ...
>>> We must be talking about different things. The --host argument
>>> is used to form the URL and should be the name of the host, as
>>> in, the name in /etc/hosts. Which *may* be the same as the MythTV
>>> hostname in its DB (used as a profile name.)
>>>
>>>
>> You need to be careful using the local hostname. This may be just a host name or a fully-qualified domain name (including the host), neither of
>> which may be how the mythtv front or back end is identified in the database!
>>

> Agreed. That's what I meant by the *may* part. There is a Python binding* that
> will return the correct value, but I was writing a solution without using them
> The proper Services API endpoint would be: hostname:6544/Myth/GetHostName .

> Where the hostname ^^^ above refers to the one you'd use when typing
> something like ssh hostname, and not the one used my MythTV as a profile
> name.

OK, your url returns <String>GentooServer</String> so I'll ad a query
just in case. But how to I retrieve the string? Just with:
response.findtext('String')? So then it becomes:

URL0 = 'http://{}:6544//Myth/GetHostName'.format(args.host)
response = ET.parse(urlopen(URL0))
URL1 = 'http://{}:6544/Capture/GetCaptureCardList?HostName={}' \
        .format(args.host, response.findtext('String'))

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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