Tvheadend

Come to think of it, it would be nice if tvheadend could start a script at end of recording as well. This can then for example start transcoding/commercial-filtering the latest recording, transfer it to a backup server, etc.

Script could then be run like:

<scriptname> idle|finished_recording|... [nextevent]

Kind regards, Alain

Alain Kalker wrote:

Come to think of it, it would be nice if tvheadend could start a script at end of recording as well. This can then for example start transcoding/commercial-filtering the latest recording, transfer it to a backup server, etc.

Use tvheadend setting in Configuration - Digital Video Recorder - Post-processor command. For example I made post-processing script - see #392

Yura Scheglyuk wrote:

Use tvheadend setting in Configuration - Digital Video Recorder - Post-processor command. For example I made post-processing script - see #392

Thanks, missed that one completely :-)
(Had to hide the log window pane to make it visible, don't ask: running browser at low screen resolution.)

Well, that leaves just the request for idle state reporting.
I think it would be nice to unify this kind of event handling (much in the spirit of tvheadend itself) under a more general "event handling" tab.

I have a potential patch for this enhancement. It is implemented as a special URL which when called replies with a soap object indicating whether a recording is in progress (idle status) and also when the next recording will start (including any extra lead time). This small change to tvheadend then makes it possible to use some external script to monitor the URL and perform power management actions based on the information there.

Andreas, would you let me know whether you will accept it? If so, I will prepare a pull request on github.

Correction, it returns a JSON object not a SOAP object.