Tvheadend

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

#This script has the purpose to import old TVHeadend recordings in a new TVHeadend installation. It scans a folder with TVHeadend recordings and sets for each file a recording timer in TVHeadend. This is adapted from the following skript:

#https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/28252?r=29113#message-29113 by user ullix tv.

#The folder is expected to be in untouched format. My recordings have a filenamescheme of "name-YYYY-MM-DDHH-MM.ts" because I had %F%R in the recording String. Looks ugly but helps now. Getting the time string with filedate2num has to be adapted. Variables have to be adapted to personal situation.

import json, urllib, time, datetime, subprocess, os

#Input variables

recdir = "/storage/recordings/"

api_url = "http://user:password@IP:9981/api/dvr/entry/create?conf="

mask = """{

    "enabled": true,

    "start": 1000,

    "stop":  2000,

    "channelname": "Imported",

    "title": {

        "ger": "my title" 

    },

    "comment": "added by tvh_rec_import.py",

    "files": [

        {

            "filename": "/full/path/to/videofile.ts"

        }

    ]

}"""

mask = mask.replace("\n", "")     # remove the line feeds

#Functions

def filedate2num(filepath):

    """Convert filename that ends with 'YYYY-MM-DDHH-MM.ts' to Unix timestamp; use cdate, i.e. last inode change time not creation, on error"""

    try:

        dt = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(filepath[-18:-3], "%Y-%m-%d%H-%M").timetuple()))

    except:

        print "ERROR in filestr2num: file name doesn't end with 'YYYY-MM-DDHH-MM.ts'. Use Inode Change Time instead."

        dt = int(os.stat(filepath).st_ctime)

    return dt

def videoDuration(video_file_path):

    """Get video duration in sec from a ffprobe call, using json output"""

    #command is:  ffprobe -loglevel quiet -print_format json -show_format /full/path/to/videofile

    command     = ["ffprobe", "-loglevel", "quiet", "-print_format", "json", "-show_format",  video_file_path]

    pipe        = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

    out, err    = pipe.communicate()

    js          = json.loads(out)

    return  int(float(js['format']['duration']) + 1.)

def importRecord(filepath, mask, url):

    """Creates a json file with the information from video file and sends a recording timer to the server."""

    video_start = filedate2num(filepath)

    new_mask                         = json.loads(mask)

    new_mask['files'][0]['filename'] = filepath[8:]

    new_mask['title']['ger']         = filepath.split("/")[-1][:-3]

    new_mask['start']                = video_start

    new_mask['stop']                 = video_start + videoDuration(filepath)

    print "New File Info: \n", json.dumps(new_mask, sort_keys = True, indent = 4)

    api_string = url + json.dumps(new_mask)

    filehandle = urllib.urlopen(api_string)

    print "Server Answer:", filehandle.read()

#Iterating through recordings folder

directories = os.listdir(recdir)

for folder in directories:

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(recdir+folder):

        for filename in files:

            importRecord(recdir+folder+"/"+filename, mask, api_url)