Looking for query string that service.libreelec.settings uses

kenmills · September 4, 2017 at 6:27 AM

Hi there,

I am trying to develop an addon, and would like it to bring in some information about the current device, like the service.libreelec.settings does.

I am happy to have the librelec settings addon provide this information to me.

I would like the following:

Version

Architecture

Device

When I use :

Container(5533).Property(Version)

or

Container(5533).Property(Arch)

The device crashes, lol.

I am using MX3 AMlogic device with latest demitris S812 firmware.

Anyone from the LE team that could kindly let me know what code I use to get this information, I would greatly appreciate it.

Cheers!

Ken

**lsellens** · September 4, 2017 at 6:34 AM

15.1. os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces — Python 2.7.14rc1 documentation

kenmills · September 4, 2017 at 6:41 AM

Facepalm! Thanks mate, should have taken some time to think about it lol. cheers!

**lsellens** · September 4, 2017 at 6:42 AM

No problem. You can view the source of the settings addon on github to get a better usage idea.

GitHub - LibreELEC/service.libreelec.settings: the LibreELEC settings addon for KODI

kenmills · September 4, 2017 at 6:59 AM

Ah yes. And I actually found another, quicker way. A mate recommended to read and parse the /etc/os-release

kenmills · September 4, 2017 at 8:25 AM

Just trying to get the exact syntax to query and parse the file in Python... (cat /etc/os-release)

**lsellens** · September 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM

cat would work great if you were working on a bash script but addons are written in python. You can call bash commands from python but no reason to when you can read the file directly.

Code

f = open('/etc/os-release', 'r') #opens the file for reading
data = f.read() #stores it
f.close() #closes the file

You can then parse the data with a for loop. Look up a python 101 it's a simple language to learn and addons are a great way to get started. I doubt you'll get much help posting in this forum beginners questions of this nature without first doing some googling to teach yourself a bit. Read, practice, google some more, examine other peoples source code that does something similar, and if you get really stuck try asking a more specific question with the code you've tried so far. Good luck!

kenmills · September 8, 2017 at 6:51 AM

I got it working, many thanks!!!