#105 Metadata pusher to IDJC

[Guesst]

Hello, I requested support to send metadata to the IDJC stream from an external source, in this case a text file, Thanks to the team that helped me with an example code:

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#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import re import dbus from dbus.exceptions import DBusException def main(profile): session = dbus.SessionBus() for metadata in sys.stdin: try: output = session.get_object('net.sf.idjc.' + profile, '/net/sf/idjc/output') output.set_metadata_control_string(0, metadata.strip(), dbus_interface='net.sf.idjc') output.metadata_update(0, dbus_interface='net.sf.idjc') except DBusException as e: print(e) # Optional: Handle scenario where idjc is not running here. # e.g. return 5 return 0 if name == "main": try: PROFILE = sys.argv[1] except IndexError: PROFILE = "default" sys.exit(main(PROFILE))

After some syntaxis adjustments with my limited python skills I ended up only with the error:

NameError: name 'name' is not defined

So for testing purposes i define it manually, and test it without errors but also didn't worked with the metadata change on the stream.

If someone could give me a tip to continue my search I would appreciate it.

Greetings

[Stephen Fairchild]

Here it is again this time in code tags.

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#! /usr/bin/env python """dbusmeta.py: dbus example pushes metadata to idjc type stuff in console to see it appear as metadata """ import sys import re import dbus from dbus.exceptions import DBusException def main(profile): session = dbus.SessionBus() for metadata in sys.stdin: try: output = session.get_object('net.sf.idjc.' + profile, '/net/sf/idjc/output') output.set_metadata_control_string(0, metadata.strip(), dbus_interface="net.sf.idjc") output.metadata_update(0, dbus_interface="net.sf.idjc") except DBusException as e: print(e) # Optional: Handle scenario where idjc is not running here. # e.g. return 5 return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": try: PROFILE = sys.argv[1] except IndexError: PROFILE = "default" sys.exit(main(PROFILE))

[Stephen Fairchild]

This will only work if you are logged in on the same user account on the same machine. If you want it to work on a different profile than default you have to supply it on the command line.

Example one off usage:

$ echo "New Metadata" | python dbusmeta.py default

[Guesst]

I tested on the user session in the same machine with the default profile, It didn't change the metadata, but also I didn't got any errors, I tested python with -v but got no error or warning messages. I'll try it in the console, thank you for the support.

[Stephen Fairchild]

It dawned on me that the version of IDJC you are using could be too old for this to work. Reckon your version number is among the 0.8 series.

[Guesst]

I've compiled V 0.9.1 because Debian hasn't include it in Bullseye, everything is working great, maybe there's something else I can check.

[Guesst]

It worked! after checking I've found that the script works properly, my problem was that I had two outputs and the change only works in the first output stream.

Thank you very much Stephen!

[Stephen Fairchild]

See the line of code that goes: output.set_metadata_control_string(0, ...
Replace the 0 with a 1 to affect metadata on the second stream and so on.
The same applies for metadata_update.