Read telnet responses

Hi,

I'm looking at wiritng a few python scripts to control some ZuneAudio players running on Raspberry pi's around the house.
I can telnet into them and get them to play etc through terminal, and i can get a python script to play from within Indigo, but what i need to be able to get is the status of the player, this means sending a command and then reading the response given.

I can get a list of the status of the device, i just need to get the 1 line - Status.
Here is the code i'm using currently to get the list.

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import os,re,telnetlib

HOST = "192.168.2.2"
PORT = "6600"
tn = telnetlib.Telnet()
tn.open(HOST, PORT)
tn.write("status\n")
ret1 = tn.read_until("nextsong")
indigo.server.log("\n%s" % ret1)
tn.close

And here's the list. I need to just know if the status is, Play, Pause or Stop.

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11 Jan 2018, 17:11:20
  Script                         
OK MPD 0.19.0
volume: 78
repeat: 1
random: 0
single: 1
consume: 0
playlist: 11
playlistlength: 4
mixrampdb: 0.000000
state: stop
song: 3
songid: 4
nextsong


Can anyone give me any advice on where to go from here?
Many thanks,
Andrew

I am using expect to drive terminal sessions. It is a full blown scripting language made for that. But the learning curve is steep.

If you just want to check the output
Parse the output with find and split in python.



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Well if you are able to get the telnet session from within Py and you can get the output from the shell into Py and all you need to do is parse results you could do this:

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if "state: stop" in ret1:
     do something here....


Super low-brow way to do it but no need to regex it or do other CPU intensive tasks if you are only after the one semi-static value.

and your last line needs to be:
tn.close()
might work w/o the () but you might accumulate open ports w/o ()

[jay (support)]

So, here's a bit of Python fun:

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>>> print ret1
11 Jan 2018, 17:11:20
  Script                         
OK MPD 0.19.0
volume: 78
repeat: 1
random: 0
single: 1
consume: 0
playlist: 11
playlistlength: 4
mixrampdb: 0.000000
state: stop
song: 3
songid: 4
nextsong
>>> status_dict = dict([nvstring.split(": ") for nvstring in [line for line in ret1.split("\n") if ": " in line]])
>>> print status_dict
{'songid': '4', 'playlistlength': '4', 'playlist': '11', 'repeat': '1', 'consume': '0', 'mixrampdb': '0.000000', 'random': '0', 'state': 'stop', 'volume': '78', 'single': '1', 'song': '3'}
>>> status_dict["state"]
'stop'
>>>


So, this line:

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status_dict = dict([nvstring.split(": ") for nvstring in [line for line in ret1.split("\n") if ": " in line]])

takes ret1, strips out the lines that don't have a 'name: value' pair, splits said pairs up into separate name and value elements, and creates a dict out of them. The end result is that you can now easily grab any of the values returned with a simple dictionary reference:

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status_dict['state']

All without any special regex parsing, etc. This is why I love Python - it has great built-in functionality for doing this sort of data manipulation.

Clever

That’s where I want to get to. Mine would have been 10 lines and would have looked like fortan IV



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Thats great!!!

Thank you very much Jay (And everyone else for your suggestions)
Thats worked a treat!

Still got a little more work to do for some of the scripts but you've helped enormously!

Thank you!
Andrew