OliveTin for Channels: An Interface for Misc Channels DVR Scripts & Tricks

How quickly I was shut down! :laughing:

It was just an idea. It may not be good but I thought I would mention it anyway. :person_shrugging:

Like I said. I'm not bnhf. It is a good idea if he wants to deal with the support issues!

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So how do I find out the name to search for? Here's CBS for example, via two sources.

I searched for "CBS" and "KCBS" and got the same answer, it only finds KCBS-HD on the HDHomeRun, and ignores the CBS from TVE.

And when I search KCBSDT, I get nothing:

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I see one obvious problem that'll I fix in the next build -- and I believe will help with your results.

Go into the config.yaml file in the directory you have bound to /config. In the very bottom section, the "shell:" line needs quotes around {{ channel }} like this:

shell: /config/channels_to_csv_awk.sh "{{ channel }}"

That should help some, and I'll take a look at what else might be done to improve the results. Maybe a loop to give all matching results, not just the first hit?

A combination of fixes/improvements will give us better results for single channel searches. For example, here's the result of searching for "hbo signature" this morning using a loop to support multiple matches:

I'm also working on some "fuzzy logic" to allow for near matches.

EDIT: Update to test tagged container pushed with support for multiple match output and .* wildcard matches.

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I've added a Delete Channels DVR Recording Log Files feature discussed in another thread with @mjitkop and @cyoungers. Probably not a big issue for most, but the recording log files stored in the dvr/Logs/recording directory on your server have the potential to grow large if you do A LOT of recording.

This OliveTin Action Button is another that you can use cron-style (or task-scheduler-style), and have it execute every 7 days, every 30 days or whatever. The interval you specify is the same number of days aging that'll be used for the log file deletion -- e.g. if you set the action to run every 7 days, it'll delete all log files more than 7 days old.

You'll need to bind the /dvr directory on your Channels DVR server (which also needs to be a network share) to the container for this to work. The share can either be CIFS (SMB) or NFS, and can be attached using Portainer-Volumes. Set the volume up first, and then attach it to /mnt/dvr in the container. I use Proxmox containers, so my example is slightly different, as I have to pass the Samba share through already mounted to my host.

version: '3.9'
services:
  olivetin:
    image: bnhf/olivetin:test
    container_name: olivetin
    ports:
      - 1337:1337
    environment:
      - CHANNELS_DVR=${CHANNELS_DVR} # Add your Channels DVR server in the form hostname:port or ip:port
      - UPDATE_YAMLS=${UPDATE_YAMLS} # Set this to true to update config.yaml
      - UPDATE_SCRIPTS=${UPDATE_SCRIPTS} # Set this to true to update all included scripts
      - TZ=${TZ} # Add your local timezone in standard linux format. E.G. US/Eastern, US/Central, US/Mountain, US/Pacific, etc
    volumes:
      - /data/olivetin:/config # replace host path or volume as needed
      - /mnt/dvr:/mnt/dvr # replace /mnt/dvr to the left of the colon with your Channels DVR Server /dvr network share
    restart: unless-stopped
#volumes: # use this section if you've setup a docker volume named channels-dvr, with CIFS or NFS, to bind to /mnt/dvr inside the container
  #channels-dvr:
    #external: true

If you were attaching a pre-created docker volume (done through Portainer-Volumes), you'd want uncomment the last 3 lines (assuming a volume name of channels-dvr), and bind it like this:

    volumes:
      - /data/olivetin:/config # replace host path or volume as needed
      - channels-dvr:/mnt/dvr # replace /mnt/dvr to the left of the colon with your Channels DVR Server /dvr network share
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes: # use this section if you've setup a docker volume named channels-dvr, with CIFS or NFS, to bind to /mnt/dvr inside the container
  channels-dvr:
    external: true

Pulled the latest test build. Not sure my drive mapping is correct. Is this what you expect if it ran correctly?

I did sneak a one time mode in there, though I oriented the script more to use on an ongoing basis.

If you exec into the container, and ls -la /mnt/dvr you should be able to tell if your network share directories are present. One of them would be "Logs". Also, if you go to your /dvr network share, there shouldn't be any directories more than 30 days old (which is the age I chose for this somewhat "undocumented" once mode).

For the future, I'll see if I can get the stdout feedback to be a bit more expansive.

@cyoungers Thanks again for testing and helping to illuminate areas that can be improved in the various OliveTin actions!

Through a bit of hocus pocus, a log file will be created when running the Delete Channels DVR Recording Log Files script, and the first lines of it will be shown in stdout. When running this psuedo cron-style, the log file will be added to when additional deletions occur:

screenshot-htpc6-2023.10.18-09_01_04

:test and :latest have been pushed, and are the same once again.

Happy to help with testing. Olivetin has developed into a nice collection of utilities. Thanks @bnhf!

Inspired by this idea, could a button in OliveTin handle this sort of thing as well?

Looks easy enough to send a notification to one particular client. But I think that begs the question, is there a way to send a single message to all active clients? Or to determine which clients are active, and then send messages to that list? I definitely like the idea!

EDIT: Maybe something as simple as an environment variable (defined at container start) containing an array of client hostnames (or IPs) to send the messages/notifications to?

EDIT2: The message disappears pretty quickly on its own (around 5 seconds), but it does seem to work to send successive messages to make it longer. So, I'm thinking we'd want to specify a display duration.

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And it's done! Pushed as bnhf/olivetin:test for now. You'll need to define a new environment variable, which is a space separated list of clients you'd like messages sent to using hostname or IP:

version: '3.9'
services:
  olivetin:
    image: bnhf/olivetin:test
    container_name: olivetin
    ports:
      - 1337:1337
    environment:
      - CHANNELS_DVR=${CHANNELS_DVR} # Add your Channels DVR server in the form hostname:port or ip:port
      - CHANNELS_CLIENTS=${CHANNELS_CLIENTS} # Space separated list of Channels DVR clients you'd like notifications sent to in the form hostname or IP
      - UPDATE_YAMLS=${UPDATE_YAMLS} # Set this to true to update config.yaml
      - UPDATE_SCRIPTS=${UPDATE_SCRIPTS} # Set this to true to update all included scripts
      - TZ=${TZ} # Add your local timezone in standard linux format. E.G. US/Eastern, US/Central, US/Mountain, US/Pacific, etc
    volumes:
      - /data/olivetin:/config # replace host path or volume as needed
      - /mnt/dvr:/mnt/dvr # replace /mnt/dvr to the left of the colon with your Channels DVR Server /dvr network share
    restart: unless-stopped
#volumes: # use this section if you've setup a docker volume named channels-dvr, with CIFS or NFS, to bind to /mnt/dvr inside the container
  #channels-dvr:
    #external: true

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Based on this post from @eric, I've modified the Notifications Action Button to take advantage of the undocumented timeout option!

Had to revert, as the timeout option only works for Apple TV clients. Bummer, but the way I'm doing it has the same end result.

Wow! This is awesome. And fast moving, look what I just saw.

Perhaps revert back? :slight_smile:

Since this is part of the client API, we probably want to wait until this updated Android client rolls out? In the meantime, what I have going is basically the same thing. I'm limiting messages to 60 seconds, but we can expand that if desired.

Here's my latest list of what's possible with OliveTin-for-Channels:

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Makes sense to me. In the meantime I just updated mine and was able to send notifications to three AppleTV's. Super cool, thanks for integrating this!

I'll give it a try when I can select from my DVR's