#!/bin/bash # file: channeldown.sh #---- # Simple script to cycle through multiple pseudo-channel instances - triggering start / stop. #---- #---- # To Use: # Configure something (a tv remote or alexa) to trigger this script. Make sure you move this script just # outside of the pseudo-channel directories: # ------------------- # -channels/ # --pseudo-channel_1/ # ---startstop.sh # --pseudo-channel_2/ # ---startstop.sh # --pseudo-channel_3/ # ---startstop.sh # --channeldown.sh <--- on the same level as the 3 channels. #---- # Make sure that each channel dir ends with a "_" + an incrementing number as seen above. #----BEGIN EDITABLE VARS---- SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE='startstop.sh' OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH=. OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE=".prevplaying" CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL="_" #----END EDITABLE VARS------- FIRST_RUN=false # Scan the dir to see how many channels there are, store them in an arr. CHANNEL_DIR_ARR=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*'"$CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL"'[[:digit:]]*' -printf "%P\n" | sort -t"$CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL" -n) ) # Since leading zeros may be an issue, we need to correctly sort the channels. The best way to do this seems to be in python # So a script will take in the channels as they are, then output them in the correct, sorted order in Channels_Sorted.txt. # We will run the script, then read in the results. sudo python ./Channel_Sorter.py ${CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]} filename="./Channels_Sorted.txt" i=0 while read -r line do name="$line" CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[i]=$name i=$((i+1)) done < "$filename" # We need to add on top of this a "buffer" where we remove all leading zeros to compare everything on the same level # This simply leaves us with the number at the end. NOTE: We should have already sorted things, so this should not be a problem for i in "${!CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]}" do CHANNEL_DIR_NUMBERS[i]=$(echo ${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[i]} | sed "s/^pseudo-channel${CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL}0*//") if [ -z ${CHANNEL_DIR_NUMBERS[i]} ]; then CHANNEL_DIR_NUMBERS[i]=0 fi done # If the previous channel txt file doesn't exist already create it (first run?) if [ ! -e "$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH/$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE" ]; then #FIRST_RUN_NUM=$((${#CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]})) echo 1 > "$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH/$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE" echo "First run: $FIRST_RUN_NUM" FIRST_RUN=true fi # If this script see's there are multiple channels, # then read file, get prevchannel, increment, and trigger next channel: if [ "${#CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then #NEXT_CHANNEL="" NEXT_CHANNEL_NUM=1 PREV_CHANNEL_FOUND=false #PREV_CHANNEL_DIR="" echo "+++++ There are ${#CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]} channels detected." #PREV_CHANNEL=$(<$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH/$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE) # We are now going to do the same thing here, just with previous channel PREV_CHANNEL=$(echo $(<$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH/$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE) | sed "s/^0*//") if [ -z $PREV_CHANNEL ]; then PREV_CHANNEL=0 fi echo "+++++ It looks like the previous channel was: $PREV_CHANNEL" # This is our modified way of searching for the correct directory for the previous channel for i in "${!CHANNEL_DIR_NUMBERS[@]}" do item_compare=${CHANNEL_DIR_NUMBERS[i]} if [ $item_compare -eq $PREV_CHANNEL ]; then echo "PREVIOUS CHANNEL MATCH: ${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[$i]}" PREV_CHANNEL_DIR=${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[$i]} if [ $((i-1)) -lt 0 ]; then ARR_LENGTH=(${#CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[@]}) NEXT_CHANNEL=${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[$ARR_LENGTH-1]} else NEXT_CHANNEL=${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[$((i-1))]} fi break fi done if [ -z $NEXT_CHANNEL ]; then NEXT_CHANNEL=${CHANNEL_DIR_SORTED[0]} fi echo "+++++ The next channel is: $NEXT_CHANNEL" # Write next channel to previous channel file to reference later echo "$NEXT_CHANNEL" | cut -d "_" -f2 > "$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH/$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_FILE" # Finally let's trigger the startstop script in both the previous channel and the next channel dirs. # This will stop the previous channels playback & trigger the next channels playback if [ "$FIRST_RUN" = false ]; then cd "$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH"/"$PREV_CHANNEL_DIR" && ./"$SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE" cd ../"$NEXT_CHANNEL" && ./"$SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE" else cd "$OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH"/"$NEXT_CHANNEL" && ./"$SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE" fi sleep 1 fi exit 0