Command line: Tell Emby to get updated M3U?

[danmarcoux 6]

Is there anyway to tell (or otherwise notify) Emby to get an update M3U file?  Other the GUI, that is.  

 

Every once in a while the web address of a channel in my M3U get's updated.   I usually have to go in to the Emby GUI, hit Edit for the TV Source, then Save (without making any changes).  It'd be nice if I could just tell Emby via an API call or something to just update the TV Source.   

 

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes, using the Emby API you can trigger the refresh guide scheduled task to be run on demand:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/wiki

[danmarcoux 6]

Ah, yes, found it!  I was looking under "Live TV" not "Scheduled Tasks".   Thank you very much!

 

[BillOatman 596]

On 5/26/2023 at 1:39 AM, danmarcoux said:

Ah, yes, found it!  I was looking under "Live TV" not "Scheduled Tasks".   Thank you very much!

 

I wrote a open source command line application  that will cause a refresh.

 

[danmarcoux 6]

Since I do most of scripting in Ubuntu under WSL, I was thinking about writing something in Python.   For this "quick and easy" job, I just have everything hardcoded (the Scheduled Task ID for running the Refresh job, and my API Key).  But I will revisit it one day in the near future and make it a bit more generic and distibutable.

 

[danmarcoux 6]

1 hour ago, danmarcoux said:

Since I do most of scripting in Ubuntu under WSL, I was thinking about writing something in Python.   For this "quick and easy" job, I just have everything hardcoded (the Scheduled Task ID for running the Refresh job, and my API Key).  But I will revisit it one day in the near future and make it a bit more generic and distributable.

 

Well I guess that "near future" turned out to be tonight.  

RefreshEmbyGuide.py --api_key API_KEY {--name HOSTNAME (or address) (default: localhost)} {--port PORTNUMBER (default: 8096)}

or (if you don't like long argument names):

RefreshEmbyGuide.py --a API_KEY {--n HOSTNAME (or address) (default: localhost)} {--p PORTNUMBER (default: 8096)}

(requires Python 3.6+)

 

RefreshEmbyGuide.py

[vdrover 62]

On 5/30/2023 at 1:04 AM, danmarcoux said:

RefreshEmbyGuide.py 1.7 kB · 4 downloads

Working well. TY!