Way to tell programmatically if channel load in from NPVR has finished...

[gdogg371]

I've posted this over on the Kodi forum as well in case there is a way of doing what I want in Kodi...however in case there is an NPVR based method, is there a way of telling via something in the log, a backend DB, anywhere that the channel load into Kodi has been completed? I'm building some automation steps that do various things in both NPVR and Kodi. I could set a timer in a script that says to wait X number of minutes, but I would prefer a more precise method than that if possible...

[mvallevand]

Not really. The backend and the addon dodn't even know this plus that is only one client and there is nothing aggregating or tracking offline clients.

There is an API to tell when the EPG update is performed which in Matrix will trigger an update in Kodi and since these are triggered in channel order you might be able to infer something by monitoring the last update time in the Kodi EPG data base fro each client.

Martin

[gdogg371]

Not really.  The backend and the addon dodn't even know this plus that is only one client and there is nothing aggregating or tracking offline clients.

There is an API to tell when the EPG update is performed which in Matrix will trigger an update in Kodi and since these are triggered in channel order you might be able to infer something by monitoring the last update time in the Kodi EPG data base fro each client.

Martin

Is the API you are referring to in Kodi or NPVR? What is it called and is there any documentation for it?

[mvallevand]

It is in NextPVR and none of the NextPVR API is documented,

You will need to get a sid (example in the kodi pvr addon) and issue http://ip:8866/service?method=system.epg.summary&sid=xx

Tthe response

Code:

<rsp stat="ok">
<last_update>1615445669</last_update>
<furthest_listing>1616716500</furthest_listing>
</rsp>

or adding &format=json

{"stat": "ok", "last_update": 1615445669, "furthest_listing": 1616716500}

This doesn't answer your question since it doesn't tell when Kodi gets updated jus when the last EPG update was done on the backend.

I leave you to research the rest of your project on your own,

Martin