zap2it

[th0ma7]

Motivation: Provide a EPG grabber for zap2it package in order to generate XMLTV file output for usage with Jellyfin / Emby / TVheadEnd. This is also in preparation for DSM7 upgrade where current EPG grabber uses perl and requires manually compiled CPAN modules making it rather complex to maintain. Current solution is looking into using a python3 option.
Linked issues: daniel-widrick/zap2it-GuideScraping#7

Checklist

• Build rule all-supported completed successfully
• Package upgrade completed successfully
• New installation of package completed successfully

[th0ma7]

@hgy59 any idea how to create a cron job at install time? (e.g. scheduled task I guess from the admin interface).

[th0ma7]

cronjob hint... I first started looking into synoschedtask but I revisited synocrond and found in the binary paths towards system-type cron jobs where there are examples :

/usr/local/etc/synocron.d
/usr/syno/etc/synocron.d
/usr/syno/share/synocron.d

Where I'm testing the following under /usr/local/etc/synocron.d :

/usr/local/etc/synocron.d# cat zap2it.conf 
[
   {
      "cmd" : "/var/packages/zap2it/target/bin/zap2it-GuideScrape.py -i /var/packages/zap2it/target/etc/zap2itconfig.ini -o /var/packages/zap2it/target/var/xmlguide.xmltv",
      "crontab" : "0 */8 * * *",
      "name" : "zap2it",
      "package_username" : "sc-zap2it",
      "period" : "crontab",
      "user" : "package"
   }
]

Seems to require a service restart:

$ sudo synoservice --status synocrond
Service [synocrond] status=[enable]
required upstart job: 
	[synocrond] is start. 
=======================================
$ sudo synoservice --restart synocrond

[th0ma7]

Closing PR as superseded with #4680