extra command not firing

[buntay20]

Code:

<extras>
<channel name="Some Channel" number="128"> output="m3u8">
<command>C:\Users\Public\name.py</command>
<command>C:\Users\Public\name.bat</command>
<args> print </args>
  

</channel>

</extras>

I have successfully loaded the extra into devices, and successfully added the channel but when I go to guide and try to watch channel I can see that neither of these commands are firing and stream fails.

"name.py" creates a .bat file that contains      @echo and then a string     then the .bat file is run to print the string to stout

anyway thats what supposed to happen. I have verified that both files are doing what they are supposed to do.
I am not running the .py script headless so when it runs the terminal does show up to tell me it ran.
I do not see the terminal pop up when I click on "watch" when I try to watch the channel.
yes I have the npvr window shrunk down so I can see if the commands run.

why is this not working?????

[sub]

You're trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be.

It's only expecting a single <command> and single <args>. If you want to run multiple things, just wrap those multiple things inside a .bat file.

ie, you'd have something like

Code:

<extras>
  <channel name="Some Channel" number="128" output="m3u8">
    <command>C:\Users\Public\something.bat</command>
    <args>{channel}<args>
  </channel>
</extras>

When the user tries to watch that channel, it'll run your test.bat (passing in the channel number as an argument), and expect it to output a m3u8 url to stdout.

The bat file might be something like:

Code:

@echo off
C:\Users\Public\something.py

where something.py finds the stream, and outputs it to stdout.

Alternatively, if you really wanted it to be multiple steps, you might have your something.py writing the stream to a text file, and add some other command to the patch file to print the contents of the text file.

Code:

@echo off
C:\Users\Public\something.py
type c:\temp\somefile.txt

[mvallevand]

This still makes no sense to me "name.py" creates a .bat file that contains @echo and then a string Why not replace that with

print (string)

Martin

[buntay20]

Thank you Sub,  finally got everything working Watch for a PM in a day or two. I will notify you when I make the donation

Martin,
python is very new to me, I have never played with it before so its a learning process as I go.
I did find a piece of code that extracted the urls I needed and tweaked it to do what I wanted.
I am learning a lot, I have literally been eating and breathing python the past week or so but I will admit I am nowhere at the level you are.
Now that I have working code I am planning on playing with it to make things more efficient and see what else I can do.

I am actually doing what you described but my un-necessary step would actually be  the "extra" file calling a batch file to run the py application and echoing the answer instead of just calling the py application itself... figured that out a couple hrs ago.
Like I said I do not only look for an answer but an explanation why the answer works then I like to try and pick apart and play with the answer to learn. That how I learned what I know about VB6.
Thank you for all your help also, both of you helped a lot and hope I can lean on you again in the future. I hope I can contribute to the NextPVR world but I have a lot to learn first
I am excited to see what I can do with python, it seems like it can open a whole new world of possibilities

Francis