Directly add muxes/channels without the web interface

https://docs.tvheadend.org/documentation/development/json-api/api-description/mpegts
https://docs.tvheadend.org/documentation/development/json-api/api-description/channel

Mehdi Is it possible to create channels directly without adding muxes and services first?

I'm not sure. Normally, a channel needs to be linked to 1 or more services. Perhaps you could create a channel object will a null service UUID, but it would be useless.

DeltaMikeCharlie Sorry for asking a dumb question but... I just looked at the channel link you gave and I see for example

channel/create
Creates a new channel. Requires ADMIN privilege.
    conf A JSON object containing details of the new channel.

but there are no links in that listing. Where would I find the description of a 'conf' object for example, or any of the others that are mentioned. I've had a quick browse but didn't see anything.

DaveH Where would I find the description of a 'conf' object for example

I don't have that exact information to hand at the moment, but try to get a channel list and then look at an individual channel object. That should give you a good place to start in creating the conf object that you need.

DaveH Where would I find the description of a 'conf' object for example

Here is a hacked-together example of some python code. It won't work as is, but it should give lots of hints.

Have a look at how the newChannel object is created and then in __createOBJ how newObject is created and then added to the URL.

newChannel = {}
newChannel['class'] = "channel"
newChannel['conf'] = {}
newChannel['conf']['enabled'] = True
newChannel['conf']['autoname'] = True
newChannel['conf']['name'] = service['svcname']
newChannel['conf']['number'] = service['lcn']
newChannel['conf']['services'] = []
newChannel['conf']['services'].append(service['uuid'])
newChannel['conf']['tags'] = []
if len(tagUUID) != 0:
	newChannel['conf']['tags'].append(tagUUID)
ret = self.__createOBJ("channel/create", newChannel)

#Create a TVH Object
def __createOBJ(self, url, payload):
	tvhResponse = ""

	newObject = "class=" + payload['class'] + "&conf=" + json.dumps(payload['conf'], separators=(',', ':'))
	newObject = newObject.replace(" ", "%20")

	json_url = "http://" + self.__hostName + ":" + str(self.__httpPort) + "/api/" + url + "?" + newObject

	req = request.Request(json_url, method="GET")
	req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8')

	r = request.urlopen(req)
	tvhResponse = r.read()
	jRet = json.loads(tvhResponse)
	uu = ""
	if 'uuid' in jRet:
		uu = jRet['uuid']
	else:
		uu = str(tvhResponse)
	extra = ""

	if 'name' in payload['conf']:
		extra = " name = '" + payload['conf']['name'] + "'"
	if 'networkname' in payload['conf']:
		extra = " networkname = '" + payload['conf']['networkname'] + "'"
	if 'display_label' in payload['conf']:
		extra = " display_label = '" + payload['conf']['display_label'] + "'"
	self.__logger("Created object, class '" + payload['class'] + "' uuid = '" + uu + "'" + extra)

	return tvhResponse