malahal/hdhomerun_recorder

python program to record TV programs using your hdhomerun device. This should run on system capable of running python. In other words, no other dependencies other than python and apscheduler module.

hdhomerun_recorder's Issues

Doesn't work with QAM?

I think I have the mappings correct but when the job runs it creates a folder for the job and that's all. Log file says the job ran successfully. No error messages, yet no files generated.

I have my channel mapping as follows:

[channelmap]

virtual-channel = physical-channel program-number ;name-of-program

1009 = qam256:110, 1 ;WNBW-DT
1013 = qam256:107, 103 ;WOGXHD

Support APScheduler 3+

The API for APScheduler has changed significantly, and hdhomerun_recorder does not work with version 3.

hdhomerun_setup.py does not produce proper output for config-file

When you run hdhomerun_setup.py, it does not produce output that is usable when placed into config-file. I attempted to modify it so that it does. I don't really know Python at all so this was my best guess effort, developed with a lot of trial and error, but it seems to produce the correct output on my system. Feel free to use or modify it as you see fit; it's basically just a few changes to your code to fix the format to try to match what's shown in the sample config-file. It still only puts one tuner in the tuners line, so if you want to add your additional tuners you still need to do that manually.

#!/usr/bin/env python

def channel_iter(file):
    for line in file:
        if line.startswith("SCANNING: "):
            channel = line.split()[2].strip('()')
            channel = channel.split(':')[1]
        elif line.startswith("LOCK: "):
            modulation = line.split()[1]
        elif line.startswith("PROGRAM "):
            (PROGRAM, subchannel, vchannel, name) = line.split(None, 3)
            subchannel = subchannel.rstrip(':')
            name = name.strip()     # remove new line
            name = name.replace(' ', '-')
            yield (vchannel, modulation, channel, subchannel, name)


def channel_info(hdhomerun_config, device_id, tuner):
    import subprocess
    import tempfile

    f = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
    cmd = [hdhomerun_config, device_id, "scan", "/tuner%d" % tuner] 
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=f)
    p.wait()
    f.seek(0)
    return list(channel_iter(f))

def main():
    import sys, os, os.path

    usage = ("usagde: %s path-to-hdhomerun-config device-id tuner-number"
             % sys.argv[0])
    if len(sys.argv) != 4:
        sys.exit(usage)
    hdhomerun_config = sys.argv[1]
    device_id = sys.argv[2]
    tuner = int(sys.argv[3])
    if not os.path.exists(hdhomerun_config):
        sys.exit("%s doesn't exist, aborting!")
    if not os.path.isfile(hdhomerun_config):
        sys.exit("%s is not a regular file, aborting!")
    if not os.access(hdhomerun_config, os.X_OK):
        sys.exit("%s doesn't have execute permission set, aborting!")

    chan_info = channel_info(hdhomerun_config, device_id, tuner)
    if not len(chan_info):
        sys.exit("couldn't find any channels, quitting!")

    print("[global]")
    print("logfile = logfile")
    print("media_dir = media")
    print("schedule_file = schedule-file")
    print("hdhomerun_config = %s" % hdhomerun_config)
    print("tuners = %s:%s" % (device_id, tuner))
    print("[channelmap]")
    print("# virtual-channel = physical-channel program-number name-of-program")
    for (vchannel, modulation, channel, subchannel, name) in chan_info:
        line = "%s = %s:%s, %s \t; %s" % (vchannel, modulation, channel, subchannel, name)
        if vchannel != '0':
            print(line)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()