NextPVR 5: When is PIN Required for API Access?

[pkscout]

I'm writing a utility to do some integration with TV Maze (https://tvmaze.com), and I have the initial code working so that I can check a list of shows (presumably new to me) and add recurring recordings to NextPVR if there are new episodes in the next 10 days.  I realized this morning that I've been able to make all the API calls to NextPVR without authentication, and I'm assuming that's because I'm accessing it via localhost (I have NextPVR running on Docker on my development Mac).  That'll actually work fine for me even in production, but I'd like to provide the option for someone to run the script somewhere else.  When is the PIN required for API access, and how does it get sent (in the header, as basic auth in the URL, as an additional Get param, etc?).

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

It is good practice to always login because sub has said he could block us as much as I hate the idea. If localhost is ipv6 many API calls fail

I did post a python snippet to do this https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid525420 if you'd like

If you want a nice site for new shows at a glance this one is good too https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ It shows premiers finales etc and is colour code too.

Martin

[pkscout]

It is good practice to always login because sub has said he could block us as much as I hate the idea.  If localhost is ipv6 many API calls fail

I did post a python snippet to do this https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid525420 if you'd like

If you want a nice site for new shows at a glance this one is good too https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/  It shows premiers finales etc and is colour code too.

Martin

Thanks.  That's exactly what I needed.  I had to adapt it a bit for the oddities of my programming style, and I yelled at it for quite awhile for not logging in.  I finally I tried your code unmodified and it also failed.  At which point I remembered I had never set the PIN on my dev instance to my standard pin - which I had been trying to use to login.

PEBKAC will kill you.

[sub]

Yeah, best to login if you can, so that the utility can be used remotely etc later.