Looking for a command to detect pause state

[tret]

I use SABnzbd on the same Karmic box that I use for a media center with XBMC. I have written a small python script that will run via crontab every 5 minutes to detect whether or not XBMC is in video playback mode and if so will pause SABnbzd (I do this to avoid choppy video during SABnzbd post-processing.) If XBMC is not in video playback mode it will then unpause SABnzbd. Right now I have the script simply sending a pause or resume command depending on the XBMC playback state but I would like to only send a command to SABnzbd if necessary. For example if a video is playing and SABnzbd is already paused there is no need to send a pause command. The same is true if no video is playing and SABnzbd is already unpaused.

Does anyone know a web command I can use to verify the current SABnzbd pause state. I can use a url request in python and then evaluate the html returned. I am currently using similar code to determine XBMC's video playback state. Here is a bit of code I am using to do that.

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req = urllib2.Request('http://' + xbmcAddress + '/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=getcurrentlyplaying')
try: handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
except IOError, e:
  print "XBMC Connection Error\n"
  exit
else:
  page = handle.read()
  if page.find('Filename:[Nothing Playing]') >= 0:
    req = urllib2.Request('http://' + sabnzbdAddress + '/sabnzbd/api?mode=resume&apikey=' + sabnzbdAPIKey + '&ma_username=' + sabnzbdUser + '&ma_password=' + sabnzbdPass)
    try: handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    except IOError, e:
      print "SABnzbd Connection Error\n"
      exit
    else:
      page = handle.read()
      print "Nothing Playing, SABnzbd unpaused\n"

This code searches the results of the XBMC url request and then resumes SABnzbd downloading if XBMC reports that nothing is playing.

Thanks,
Rob

[inpheaux]

Use the API.

Specifically, either the XML or JSON version of the queue output.

You'll need to pass in the api key, username and password as usual.

[tret]

Thanks for the info, I ended up using the XML output. For anyone interested here is a link to the finished script and information.

http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=3368.0