Autodetect iPod mountpoint

[Adam Olsen]

{{{
    def detect_ipod(self):
        bus = dbus.SystemBus()
        try:
            hal_manager_obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal',
                '/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager')
            hal_manager = dbus.Interface(hal_manager_obj,
                'org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager')
            dev_udi_list = hal_manager.FindDeviceStringMatch ('portable_audio_player.type', 'ipod')
            for udi in dev_udi_list:
                vol_udi_list = hal_manager.FindDeviceStringMatch ('info.parent', udi)

                for vol_udi in vol_udi_list:
                    vol_obj = bus.get_object ('org.freedesktop.Hal', vol_udi)
                    vol = dbus.Interface (vol_obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')

                    if not vol.GetProperty('volume.is_mounted'):
                        continue;

                    return (vol.GetProperty('block.device').encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()),
                        vol.GetProperty('volume.mount_point').encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()))
        except None:
            print 'HAL is down.'

        return None
}}}

You can also connect to the "device connected," "device disconnected" and "device changed" HAL signals to automatically detect when the device is available.

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #5

[bear (bear42)]

The attached patch fixes the iPod auto-detect for plugins and also when iPod is already attached

[bear (bear42)]

looks like my patch continued the work of bug 331047 - just noting here for my own benefit

[reacocard (reacocard)]

deferring to 0.3.1

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

HAL is deprecated and Exaile still doesn't mount iPod