howto detect if updatelibrary is done?

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howto detect if updatelibrary is done? - PierreC - 2011-08-16

Is there anyway to detect if a updatelibrary is done ? I have just done a simple autoexec.py script where it start scanning a specific path for new series, and now I also want it to scan for movies. The problem I am having is that using 2 updatelibraries in a row breaks the scan completely, so I need a way to detect if the first scan is done before executing the next one. Is there a way to do this ? if so, how?

And fyi, dont tell me to do a complete library scan at startup, it takes to long time for me (30+ min).

- mkortstiege - 2011-08-16

Something like this might work (untested pseudo code) ..

Code:
while (xbmc.getCondVisibility('Library.IsScanningVideo')):

  xbmc.sleep(100)

- PierreC - 2011-08-16

Thanks, but it didnt seem to work Sad

, my code is as follows:

Code:
import os, xbmc, time

print "running autoexec.py"

time.sleep(5)

xbmc.executebuiltin("xbmc.updatelibrary(video,aaa)")

time.sleep(5)

while (xbmc.getCondVisibility("Library.IsScanningVideo")) : xbmc.sleep(10)

xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Testing,XBMC Command Success.)")

print "finished autoexec.py"

What happens is that the library is scanning and after 10 seconds the notification is still popping up, while library is still scanning.

- mkortstiege - 2011-08-16

What revision/build of XBMC you're running. The infolabel Library.IsScanningVideo is a pretty new one.

- PierreC - 2011-08-16

I found the solution!

Code:
while (xbmc.getCondVisibility('Window.IsActive(videoscan)')) : xbmc.sleep(10)

Thanks vdrfan for the hint on getCondVisibility Smile

- PierreC - 2011-08-16

vdrfan Wrote:What revision/build of XBMC you're running. The infolabel Library.IsScanningVideo is a pretty new one.

I am on 10.1

- mkortstiege - 2011-08-16

Glad to hear it's working now Wink