Dave: great, works here as well! My failure had resulted from missing the "conf=" part. Make sure to mention it in your docu ;-)
So, the URL to use is:
http://user:pass@localhost:9981/api/dvr/entry/create?conf={"enabled": true, "start": 1000, <other json info>}
My interest is to add a local video, e.g. from a digital camera, to the tvh registered recordings, to play it like a recording. Here is a simple Python2 script. The start/stop times will be listed in tvh plus/minus the default padding. Not sure whether there is an "any" language category? You can exchange "ger" to "eng" but it does not seem to matter if there is only one listed.
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
"""
usage: tvh_addfile.py
registers a local file in tvheadend as recorded by sending json formed conf info via http api:
http://user:pass@localhost:9981/api/dvr/entry/create?conf={"enabled": true, "start": 1000, <other json info>}
If successful returns the uuid of the created timer
"""
import json, urllib, time, datetime, subprocess
def datestr2num(string_date):
"""Convert Date&Time string YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS to Unix timestamp; use default date on error"""
try:
dt=time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(string_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").timetuple())
except:
defaultdate = '2000-01-01 12:00:00'
print "ERROR in datestr2num: Date as String: '{}'".format(string_date)
print " replacing with: '{}'".format(defaultdate)
dt=time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(defaultdate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").timetuple())
return dt
def videoDuration(video_file_path):
"""Get video duration in sec from a ffprobe call, using json output"""
#command is: ffprobe -loglevel quiet -print_format json -show_format /full/path/to/videofile
command = ["ffprobe", "-loglevel", "quiet", "-print_format", "json", "-show_format", video_file_path]
pipe = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
out, err = pipe.communicate()
js = json.loads(out)
return int(float(js['format']['duration']) + 1.)
############# enter your data here ############################################
video_storage = "/home/videos/tvheadend/" # must end with "/"
video_name = "myvideo.MOV" # your video name with
# proper extension!
video_title = "my title" # your text (any)
video_description = "my description of my video" # your text (any)
video_starttime = "2017-10-25 00:00:00" # your start time (any)
###############################################################################
video_path = video_storage + video_name
video_subtitle = "filename: " + video_name
video_startstmp = datestr2num(video_starttime)
video_stopstmp = video_startstmp + videoDuration(video_path)
mask = """{
"enabled": true,
"start": 1000,
"stop": 2000,
"channelname": "local file",
"title": {
"ger": "my title"
},
"subtitle": {
"ger": "filename: my video"
},
"description": {
"ger": "my description"
},
"comment": "added by tvh_addfile.py",
"files": [
{
"filename": "/full/path/to/videofile.ts"
}
]
}"""
mask = mask.replace("\n", "") # remove the line feeds
new_mask = json.loads(mask)
new_mask['files'][0]['filename'] = video_path
new_mask['title']['ger'] = video_title
new_mask['subtitle']['ger'] = video_subtitle
new_mask['description']['ger'] = video_description
new_mask['start'] = video_startstmp
new_mask['stop'] = video_stopstmp
print "New File Info: \n", json.dumps(new_mask, sort_keys = True, indent = 4)
api_url = 'http://tv:pw4tv@localhost:9981/api/dvr/entry/create'
post = 'conf=' + json.dumps(new_mask)
filehandle = urllib.urlopen(api_url + "?" + post)
print "Server Answer:", filehandle.read()
