Simple Recording status?

[rwmech]

Ok, what am I missing here. Something doesnt seem right

Code:

    private ScheduledRecording Mystat=new ScheduledRecording();
    Logger.Verbose("Status: "+Mystat.getRecordingStatus().ToString());

This always returns 0, even when I know i'm recording.

Shouldnt it return something other than 0?

[bgowland]

Ok, what am I missing here. Something doesnt seem right

Code:

    private ScheduledRecording Mystat=new ScheduledRecording();
    Logger.Verbose("Status: "+Mystat.getRecordingStatus().ToString());

I've never done anything like this but I think you need to be checking the actual capture source status.

You could try getting the PluginHelper and then use the IPluginHelper.getCaptureSourceStatus() method. This seems to return a string array - not sure what you do with it once you've got it.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

Ok, what am I missing here. Something doesnt seem right

Code:

private ScheduledRecording Mystat=new ScheduledRecording();
    Logger.Verbose("Status: "+Mystat.getRecordingStatus().ToString());

This always returns 0, even when I know i'm recording.

Shouldnt it return something other than 0?

A ScheduledRecording does not represent the status of system with regard to recording, but rather a specific recording that may occur some time in the future.

Its not until that ScheduledRecording has had its starttime/endtime/channel/etc set, and been saved to the database, that the recording service will pick it up examine whether it needs to start a recording, and update its status to reflect this. Even then, you'd need to be reloading it from the database to get the real stats - creating a new one like you've shown above is just a empty representation of a recording that may occur some time in the future.

[rwmech]

Ok, here is what eventually worked. If anyone else was grapling with this, here is a quick function to say yes or no.

Code:

// Function to check to see if recording is in progress.  Return True if actively recording
    private bool CheckStatus()
    {
        foreach (ScheduledRecording scheduledRecording in ScheduleHelper.getInstance().LoadRecordingSchedule())
            {
                if (scheduledRecording.getRecordingStatus()== ScheduledRecording.STATUS_IN_PROGRESS)
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
       }