Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 recorder

[mattogodoy]

I guess you might find this useful. It's a Python3 library to emulate the remote control for a Zoom H6 recorder from your computer. You can use it directly from the terminal, or import it in your Python scripts.

I created it because I was looking for a way to automate some steps in my podcast, and starting or stopping the recording was one of them. This led to a big rabbit hole to understand and emulate the commands sent by the real remote to the recorder. All the digging has finally paid up and the code works!

I hope you find this useful. Pull requests are also welcome.

I'd love to know what you'll be using it for :)

[bserge]

Really good stuff! Would this work for a H4n Pro? Regardless, thanks for the effort!

Strange thing, your comment shows as 2 days old in this reply window, but the submission says "1 hour ago".

[RileyJames]

Very cool, very well done.

I purchased the shure mv88 for iPhone. Great mic, but the patterns / settings can only be modified with the official motive app. Making it pretty limited.

It’s 2020 and you’re selling hardware. Why not open source the software / interface ffs!

[mattogodoy]

Thank you!

[im3w1l]

This is for an audio recorder by Zoomcorp which is different from the famous Zoom Video Communications company.

[su1000]

https://www.monkwhocode.com/2020/12/coding-interview-questio...

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[gbraad]

Why

  recorder.send('record')

instead of

  recorder.record()

As the latter allows better error control and also add something like record(60). Which would start a timer and stop after 60seconds.

[mattogodoy]

Thanks for the suggestion! The `send` command is able to send any of the valid commands, but the library also allows you to do `recorder.rec()` and `recorder.stop()`.

Passing the time as an argument is a good idea! I'll take it into account.

[phaedrus]

This makes me wonder if my old Zoom H2 recorder has any latent remote control ability (perhaps not brought out to a physical connector).

[stefanmichael]

is this a fake account? what kind of a comment is this? completely unrelated to OP and generally just looks like a generated string