How to get XBMC version from Python?

[Dan Dare]

Hi,

Is there a way to get the XBMC version/build from a Python script/plugin? And possibily the OS name & version. Trying to build a User-Agent string here.

Thanks,
Dan

[rwparris2]

httpapi to get builddate & version number. I don't know which is which, this is straight from the wiki. There might be a better way to get this but this is all I know off top of my head:
http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=GetSystemInfo(120;121)

import platform
print platform.system(), platform.release()
this works well on windows, I cannot test linux or macosx or xbox at the moment.

iirc, AMTLite uses some other method (most likely in the download module), I cannot remember what it is though.

[BigBellyBilly]

simplest way is:

xbmc_version = xbmc.getInfoLabel( "System.BuildVersion" )

example: 9.04-alpha1 r19293

Then you can parse it (string funcs or regex) to extract the bits you need

[Dan Dare]

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

@rwparris2
GetSystemInfo() returns version, build and date, nice.

I found later on the platform package, but for some reason it crashes my XBMC 9.04.1 on Windows XP (CThread::staticThread : Access violation) when calling the any method.

@BigBellyBilly
Thanks BBB - I'm new to InfoLabels, appears you can get quite a bit of information from those (http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=InfoLabels), thanks.