Pre Recording Hook

[Reznor]

I was wondering if there any way I could get GBPVR to be able to do something right when it starts to record a show and right when it finishes. Such as call a method or something within the API itself. I've been looking around the docs but have yet to find anything.

[sub]

No, there isnt anything that does this.

The closest to this is the ParallelRecording.bat, which is run when the recording starts.

[Reznor]

Yeah I just noticed that one and also RecordingStatus.bat. I was looking to develop a sort of webservice that will connect to my website to have GBPVR submit the activities it is doing in realtime. Because my GBPVR is on a slower system I would much rather have it report its activities to the site as opposed to having the site query it to see what its doing. This would result in a faster presentation of the website and less use of bandwidth.

So I can code an app that can be called by recordingstatus to post when something is being recorded and such. How about anything that gets called when a show is being watched. Does that exist? I supposed this would be simpler to track via a webservice request.

[sub]

Sorry, there is nothing for that. Plugins can receive notification about several events, but these are more about use initiate things - primarily because these plugins run in the gbpvr.exe process instead of the recording service process, so they dont have visibility of these things occurring.

How about anything that gets called when a show is being watched. Does that exist?

Yes, if your plugin implements the IEventNotification interface, then it gets notified about this.

[Reznor]

so in order to use the IEventNotification interface I sould code something to this effect

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using GBPVR.Public;
using GBPVR.Backend.Common;

namespace TunerReporter
{
    public class TunerMonitor : IEventNotification
    {
        private static TunerMonitor instance;

        public static TunerMonitor Instance
        {
            get
            {
                if (null == instance) instance = new TunerMonitor();
                return instance;
            }
        }
        
        public TunerMonitor() {
            instance = this;
        }

        public void Notify(EventTypes eventType, string eventText)
        {
                Logger.Verbose("Test to see if I was notified of something");
        }
    }
}

This is what I've gathered from looking through the forums. and sometimes this will work and sometimes it wont. How can I get it to log the even name in the logs using this concept. Just so I can get a feel for how this whole interface works ?

Am I even going about this properly?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Reznor]

So I seem to have my little script recording the logs of certain activities however it only seems to be recording the activities that occur on my MediaMVP and not on the main GBPVR system. When I put it on live tv or watch a recording on the main system it is not making an entry in the log. But when I try these actions on the MediaMVP then it does make an entry in the GBPVR log. Any Ideas ???

[sub]

Yeah, that sample code above looks about right. I'm not sitting in front of my development PC at the moment, but in the Notify() method you can check the type with a simple "if (eventType == EventTypes.EventBlahBlah)...".

This will give you notification about most front end events, like starting live tv, playing a file etc.

[sub]

So I seem to have my little script recording the logs of certain activities however it only seems to be recording the activities that occur on my MediaMVP and not on the main GBPVR system. When I put it on live tv or watch a recording on the main system it is not making an entry in the log. But when I try these actions on the MediaMVP then it does make an entry in the GBPVR log. Any Ideas ???

Both should generate the events.

Its important to remember that you can have multiple instances of GB-PVR running, so the events can be occuring in multiple processes. Only the first instance of GB-PVR produces logs.

[Reznor]

Ohhhh, I see so what your saying is I'm most likely not seeing the log from the main GBPVR System is because the instance started by the recording service is the one actually generating logs. Not because my code isn't working.

OK Cool sub thanks, I thought I was losing my mind for a while there. LOL