Initiate Media Scan script?

[David HVR1600]

Is there a script/exe to initiate a scan of import folders by executing it?

I just bought ANYDVD for blu rays and set it as an import path. I can get anydvd to launch a script/program on media change and want that to initiate an import folder scan.

I don't want to set the auto interval to like 1 minute or anything as I don't watch that many blu rays yet.

[skiingwiz]

If you have installed the Sage Scripting Framework, then the following small python script will do it.

from sagex.api import Global
Global.RunLibraryImportScan(False)

[David HVR1600]

Apologies but not being a java coder Im not sure where to put everything and how. I have the framework downloaded but not sure where to put the files. I assume the script you supplied goes in the scripts folder but how do I initiate it?

Thanks again.

[stanger89]

I think there's a sendmessage utility. I don't remember if there's a command to initiate a scan, but if so you could use sendmessage to send the rescan command.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by stanger89

I think there's a sendmessage utility. I don't remember if there's a command to initiate a scan, but if so you could use sendmessage to send the rescan command.

No, there's no scan command. The scripting framework thing may be the only currently available method.

[skiingwiz]

Originally Posted by David HVR1600

Apologies but not being a java coder Im not sure where to put everything and how. I have the framework downloaded but not sure where to put the files. I assume the script you supplied goes in the scripts folder but how do I initiate it?

Thanks again.

Sorry about that. I guess I didn't give you all of the details.

You can put the files for the scripting framework anywhere. They connect remotely to sage, so it doesn't matter where they are. (Which reminds me, you have to have the Sage Remote APIs plugin installed on the server.)

Then you can call the script using the command

java -jar ssf.jar scripts/yourScript.py

replace scripts/yourScript.py with the path to your script.

A better rundown of all of this is at the wiki page that I originally linked to. If it works for you, you can run the script by hand and then watch on your TV for the "Library Scan in Progress" icon to appear in the sage interface.

I do all of this on my own machine, so I can verify that it works as intended. (I'm using DirMon to trigger the script whenever I add files to a directory, but otherwise it is exactly what you are trying to do.)

[David HVR1600]

Thanks, the script works great. Unfortunately it seems Anydvd isnt launching it I will play with that more later but thanks for the help!

[David HVR1600]

So... second question.... Can I alter things like import folders with a similar script? When the CD is removed but the drive letter is shown as an import folder it can't scan it so it just leaves the last disk on my media list.

[skiingwiz]

Originally Posted by David HVR1600

So... second question.... Can I alter things like import folders with a similar script? When the CD is removed but the drive letter is shown as an import folder it can't scan it so it just leaves the last disk on my media list.

Yep. You can call any Sage API from these scripts. In this case check out the Configuration API. You'll be interested in the AddLibraryImportPath and RemoveLibraryImportPath calls.

[David HVR1600]

Ok well I got the add path working fine but the remove path is not.

Curiously the Add command passes a string but the remove wants a file object.

I tried just passing a string but got a type cast error (c# verbiage sorry)

This is the script as I wrote it:

from sagex.api import Global
from sagex.api import Configuration
Configuration.RemoveVideoLibraryImportPath(java.io.File("f:\\"))
Global.RunLibraryImportScan(False)

This code yields the following result:

Error Launching Class: sagex.ScriptRunner
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at ScriptingFrameworkLauncher.main(ScriptingFrameworkLauncher.java:122)
Caused by: javax.script.ScriptException: Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<unknown>", line 3, in ?
NameError: java

        at com.sun.script.jython.JythonScriptEngine.evalCode(JythonScriptEngine.
java:292)
        at com.sun.script.jython.JythonScriptEngine.eval(JythonScriptEngine.java
:170)
        at com.sun.script.jython.JythonScriptEngine.eval(JythonScriptEngine.java
:175)
        at javax.script.AbstractScriptEngine.eval(Unknown Source)
        at sagex.ScriptRunner.main(ScriptRunner.java:46)
        ... 5 more
Caused by: Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<unknown>", line 3, in ?
NameError: java

        at org.python.core.Py.NameError(Unknown Source)
        at org.python.core.PyFrame.getglobal(Unknown Source)
        at org.python.core.PyFrame.getname(Unknown Source)
        at org.python.pycode._pyx0.f$0(<unknown>:3)
        at org.python.pycode._pyx0.call_function(<unknown>)
        at org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(Unknown Source)
        at org.python.core.PyCode.call(Unknown Source)
        at org.python.core.Py.runCode(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.script.jython.JythonScriptEngine.evalCode(JythonScriptEngine.
java:289)
        ... 9 more

At this point I am wondering if this is due to the fact that there is no DVD in the drive or I am trying to pass a "File" object but supplying a diretctory name?

[David HVR1600]

Anyone? any ideas how to use the remove function correctly?

Thanks in advance.

[David HVR1600]

This is pretty old and maybe nobody needs this but I will answer my own question.

AnyDVD never panned out the way I wanted it to so I stopped looking at this not too long after making my alst post. I ran in to the need to get this working today and realized my mistake from above in that the remove line argument needed to be instantiated correctly as a "file" type variable and then the variable needed to be passed to the remove call.

so the remove script looks like this:

from sagex.api import Global
from sagex.api import Configuration
from java.io import File
IDir = File("//server/share/subfolder")
Configuration.RemoveLibraryImportPath(IDir)