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[aTV] Automatically update library via cron/launchd - ewequeone - 2009-10-11 Getting frustrated by having to use the context menu all the time to scan for new content, I did a search and came across this handy command using cron and the xbmc http api to update the library every 5 minutes. */5 * * * * curl "http://192.168..66:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn¶meter=XBMC.updatelibrary(video)" > /dev/null now, I've set this up to run on one of my linux machines, but I was wondering if there was a way to get this working on the appletv. I searched and found you can copy cron from a 10.4 osx install to the appletv, but alas, I don't have any machines running 10.4. I've found that you can do certain things with launchd, but I'm unable to find specific answers for what I want to do. How can you use launchd to run the command above on the appletv so that it regularly updates the library via the http api? - davilla - 2009-10-11 ewequeone Wrote:Getting frustrated by having to use the context menu all the time to scan for new content, I did a search and came across this handy command using cron and the xbmc http api to update the library every 5 minutes. http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html - ewequeone - 2009-10-11 Thanks for that. Realised though that I'd still need to put curl on the system, so if I'm going to that much trouble, I may as well just put cron and crontab on it too and do what I'm currently doing - davilla - 2009-10-11 ewequeone Wrote:Thanks for that. Realised though that I'd still need to put curl on the system, so if I'm going to that much trouble, I may as well just put cron and crontab on it too and do what I'm currently doing wget should be present (atvusb-creator installs it), it's much nicer than curl in some aspects. - ewequeone - 2009-10-13 Ok, finally got cron and crontab from a 10.4 machine and got it all working so it automatically updates the library every X minutes. only thing is, I'm still having to manually update the library myself, unless I set the cron job to update it every minute, which seems overkill. Is there some program / script under osx that I can run on the appletv which will monitor a directory (and all subdirectories both local or via the network) and when it notices a change (new subdirectory or file having been created) it then runs a command via the http api to update the library? - ewequeone - 2009-10-19 Well, I've found a couple of options for what I want as per the above, but no way of using the options for what I want to do due to lack of knowledge in writing daemons and not having a 10.4 install to compile on. fslogger is the first option, and can be found at http://osxbook.com/software/fslogger/ (I'll also add that fslogger works straight out of the box, just mount the dmg and it runs on the appletv) the second is simplefilemon which is at http://benno.id.au/blog/2008/05/15/simplefilemon and the third is logfmon http://logfmon.sourceforge.net/ without wanting to sound like I'm asking to be spoonfed, can someone suggest or assist in developing any of the three options above into a daemon which monitors any given directories and once a change is made in that directory and subdirectories, be it creation or deletion of files/directories, a command be given the http api to update the library? I really wish I had of learnt to program instead of spending countless hours downloading pr0n and drinking beer. Cheers, jason. |