How to detect if actively recording?

[trevsat]

Stuck on old release, it's the latest stable version for GigaBlue QuadPlus, later versions get sick after hours or days resulting in PAT tuner timeouts.

So that's an aside.

Q: What I'd like to know is, from a shell script run by cron, how can I tell if a recording is currently active? poking around in /proc/ didn't turn up much.

I want to do intrusive actions like reboot etc. but delay/wait until no recordings are happening.

thanks

[birdman]

The information about any running recording is contained within the enigma2 image, so you'll need to query it.

A bit of a hack, but:

wget -qO - http://127.0.0.1/ajax/timers | grep -E '^[[:space:]]*running[[:space:]]*$'will produce output if there is a running timer.

[Rob van der Does]

But even if no recording is in progress, one could start any second. So maybe it would be safer to extract the timers?

[warrenr2]

Building on the earlier suggestion, here's a bit of Python tested on OpenVix 4.1.013 which will look at all your timers and tell you if you are inside a timer window or 5 mins before a timer is due to start.

At the top you can change the self.recordWindow=300 to create a bigger window (in seconds) if you want one. As far as embedding into a shell script just call it and check for the exit code not being 1, something like:

./isrecording.py
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo good to go, nothing recording or due to start
fi

as long as the xml returned doesn't change you will be ok, I've include a debug line you can turn on in case it does, maybe turn it on and see what good output looks like so you can check later.

Hope that helps

[warrenr2]

Jumped the gun, you need this test as well

if _now>=_start and _now<_end:
_hit=True

New version attached

[warrenr2]

Ignore this :-)