Harden xTeVe update flow to prevent mapping deactivation

root/cronjob.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,69 @@ function prepend() {
 
 exec 1> >(prepend "[cronjob.sh] ")
 
+LOCK_DIR=/tmp/xteve/.cronjob.lock
+mkdir -p /tmp/xteve
+
+if ! mkdir "$LOCK_DIR" 2>/dev/null; then
+	echo "Another cronjob instance is already running, exiting."
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+function cleanup() {
+	rmdir "$LOCK_DIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+function post_xteve_cmd() {
+	local cmd="$1"
+	local retries="${2:-5}"
+	local retry_sleep="${3:-2}"
+	local response=""
+
+	for ((attempt=1; attempt<=retries; attempt++)); do
+		response=$(curl -sS --max-time 120 -X POST -d "{\"cmd\":\"${cmd}\"}" "http://127.0.0.1:${XTEVE_PORT}/api/" 2>&1)
+		if echo "$response" | grep -q '"status"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*true'; then
+			echo "xTeVe API ${cmd}: accepted"
+			return 0
+		fi
+
+		echo "xTeVe API ${cmd}: attempt ${attempt}/${retries} failed (${response})"
+		sleep "$retry_sleep"
+	done
+
+	echo "xTeVe API ${cmd}: failed after ${retries} attempts"
+	return 1
+}
+
+function xteve_internal_update_due_now() {
+	if [ "${skip_xteve_api_when_internal_update:-yes}" != "yes" ]; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	if [ ! -f /xteve/settings.json ]; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	local now_hhmm
+	now_hhmm=$(date +"%H%M")
+
+	local update_values
+	update_values=$(tr -d '\n' < /xteve/settings.json | sed -n 's/.*"update"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*\[\([^]]*\)\].*/\1/p' | tr -d ' "')
+	if [ -z "$update_values" ]; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	IFS=',' read -r -a updates <<< "$update_values"
+	for update_time in "${updates[@]}"; do
+		if [ "$update_time" = "$now_hhmm" ]; then
+			echo "xTeVe internal update is scheduled for ${now_hhmm}; skipping wrapper API update to avoid overlap."
+			return 0
+		fi
+	done
+
+	return 1
+}
+
 echo "Running scripts..."
 
 ### Generate playlist and XML data from Lazystream
@@ -94,13 +157,23 @@ sleep 1
 
 # update xteve via API
 if [ "$use_xTeveAPI" = "yes" ]; then
+	if xteve_internal_update_due_now; then
+		echo "Skipping xTeVe API update in cronjob."
+	else
 		echo "Updating xTeVe..."
-	curl -s -X POST -d '{"cmd":"update.m3u"}' http://127.0.0.1:$XTEVE_PORT/api/
-	# sleep 1
-	curl -s -X POST -d '{"cmd":"update.xmltv"}' http://127.0.0.1:$XTEVE_PORT/api/
-	sleep 1
-	curl -s -X POST -d '{"cmd":"update.xepg"}' http://127.0.0.1:$XTEVE_PORT/api/
-	sleep 30
+		if post_xteve_cmd "update.m3u"; then
+			sleep "${xteve_m3u_settle_seconds:-2}"
+			if post_xteve_cmd "update.xmltv"; then
+				sleep "${xteve_xmltv_settle_seconds:-20}"
+				post_xteve_cmd "update.xepg"
+				sleep "${xteve_xepg_settle_seconds:-2}"
+			else
+				echo "Skipping update.xepg because update.xmltv failed."
+			fi
+		else
+			echo "Skipping remaining xTeVe API updates because update.m3u failed."
+		fi
+	fi
 fi
 
 # update Emby via API
@@ -116,7 +189,12 @@ fi
 
 # update Plex via API
 if [ "$use_plexAPI" = "yes" ]; then
-	
+	echo "Updating Plex..."
+	if [ -z "${plexUpdateURL//[[:space:]]/}" ]; then
+		echo "no Plex credentials provided"
+	elif ! echo "$plexUpdateURL" | grep -Eq '^https?://[^[:space:]]+$'; then
+		echo "invalid plexUpdateURL, expected a plain http(s) URL. Skipping Plex update."
+	else
 		# get protocol
 		proto="$(echo $plexUpdateURL | grep :// | sed -e's,^\(.*://\).*,\1,g')"
 		# remove the protocol
@@ -124,10 +202,6 @@ if [ "$use_plexAPI" = "yes" ]; then
 		# extract the host
 		plexHostPort="$(echo ${url/} | cut -d/ -f1)"
 
-	echo "Updating Plex..."
-	if [ -z "$plexUpdateURL" ]; then
-		echo "no Plex credentials provided"
-	else
 		curl --location --request POST "$plexUpdateURL" -H "authority: $plexHostPort" -H "content-length: 0" -H "pragma: no-cache" -H "cache-control: no-cache" -H "sec-ch-ua: 'Google Chrome';v='95', 'Chromium';v='95', ';Not A Brand';v='99'" -H "accept: text/plain, */*; q=0.01" -H "x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest" -H "accept-language: en" -H "sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0" -H "user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36" -H "sec-ch-ua-platform: 'macOS'" -H "origin: http://$plexHostPort" -H "sec-fetch-site: same-origin" -H "sec-fetch-mode: cors" -H "sec-fetch-dest: empty" -H "referer: http://$plexHostPort/web/index.html"
 		sleep 1
 	fi

root/defaults/sample_cron.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-printf '0  *  *  *  *  /cronjob.sh' > /etc/crontabs/root
+printf '5  *  *  *  *  /cronjob.sh' > /etc/crontabs/root
 ### Remove this line and everything beneath it ###
 ### Edit the above cron expression, rename this file to cron.txt, and restart the container.
 ### If no cron.txt is found the cronjob will run every hour

root/etc/crontabs/root

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0  *  *  *  *  /cronjob.sh
+5  *  *  *  *  /cronjob.sh

sample.env

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ PGID=1000
 ### Xteve Config
 XTEVE_PORT=34400
 use_xTeveAPI=yes
+# Skip wrapper-triggered xTeVe updates if the current time matches xTeVe's internal "update" schedule.
+skip_xteve_api_when_internal_update=yes
+# Wait times between wrapper xTeVe update stages. XMLTV delay helps avoid mapping against in-progress downloads.
+#xteve_m3u_settle_seconds=2
+#xteve_xmltv_settle_seconds=20
+#xteve_xepg_settle_seconds=2
 
 ### Lazystream Config
 # If trim_xmltv is set to yes, both NHL and MLB wont output 100 placeholder channels and