Cable Channel Scan parameters

mski · Post by **mski** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:16 pm

Hi, All -

I'm looking to automate a bit around channel scanning. I've discovered the obvious end points:

curl -v -X POST http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.post?scan=start
curl -v -X POST http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.post?scan=abort
curl -v -X GET http://hdhomerun.local/lineup_status.json
curl -v -X GET http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.json

I've found some parameters in github such as lineup.json?show=found, lineup.json?show=all, and lineup.json?tuning.

Is there documentation about these end points and their parameters?

Is the scan configurable? I'd like to only use a single tuner and leave the additional tuners available for use.

Thanks all!

mski · Post by **mski** » Thu May 14, 2020 7:01 am

I found some official documentation:
https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/http_api
https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/h ... opment.pdf
https://github.com/Silicondust/documentation/wiki

Found an end point to favorite and hide channels.

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curl -v -X POST http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.post?favorite=+3
curl -v -X POST http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.post?favorite=x3
curl -v -X POST http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.post?favorite=-3

mski · Post by **mski** » Thu May 14, 2020 7:40 am

mski wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:16 pm Is the scan configurable? I'd like to only use a single tuner and leave the additional tuners available for use.

I haven't tripped accross a HTTP endpoint that sets up server side single tunner scanning. As documented elsewhere, the thick configuration app supports per tuner scanning.

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~/libhdhomerun-master$ hdhomerun_config <id> scan <tuner>

I assume this "does the right thing" and updates the channel list for all tuners while used with a PRIME. I seem to recall some models had multiple inputs and per tuner multiple channel lists but haven't seen any documentation on that.

Post by **NedS** » Thu May 14, 2020 9:53 am

I'll have to check with our CTO, Nick, but I believe the command line tool is the only way to specify a specific tuner for scanning. I'll also see if we can update the info.hdhomerun.com page today to answer your other questions and also consolidate more of the documentation. I've been meaning to add something for the blacklist/favoriting, and a few other tricks that aren't currently properly documented, but now is as good of a time as any to get cracking on that.

jasonl · Post by **jasonl** » Thu May 14, 2020 7:47 pm

Single-tuner scanning doesn't exist, at least in a useful fashion for updating the website or xml/json data. The scan that updates the stored data on the device always uses all tuners, period. The hdhomerun_config scan doesn't update information stored on the device and is generally only useful for recording signal metrics and, excluding anything using a tuning adapter, which virtual channels are present on a given physical channel.

mski · Post by **mski** » Thu May 28, 2020 3:00 pm

mski wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 7:40 am I assume this "does the right thing" and updates the channel list

jasonl wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 7:47 pm hdhomerun_config scan doesn't update information stored on the device

Thank you! This is an important tidbit of information.

NOYB · Post by **NOYB** » Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:49 pm

Can't get the http post scan start to work. What am I doing wrong?

PowerShell 4.0

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Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://192.168.2.202/lineup.post' -Method POST -Body @{"scan"="start"}

Returns status 400 Bad Request

Posting with browser also returns status 400 Bad Request

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<html>
    <form action='http://192.168.2.202/lineup.post' method='post'>
        <input type="text" name="scan" value="start">
    </form>
</html>

Wireshark POST:

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HTML Form URL Encoded: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    Form item: "scan" = "start"
        Key: scan
        Value: start

HDHomeRun CONNECT
Model: HDHR4-2US
Device ID: 1040dddd
Firmware: 20200907

signcarver · Post by **signcarver** » Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm

why are you putting it in body... though I have seen some documentation of Invoke-WebRequest state it will put the body as parameters but one usually just adds the parameters to the url such as

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Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://192.168.2.202/lineup.post?scan=start' -Method POST

NOYB · Post by **NOYB** » Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:08 pm

For some reason was thinking needed to send a form.
Thanks

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