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

Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by mattogodoy on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:25AM (#25518502)

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 :)

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by bserge on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:20PM (#25539119)

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".

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by detaro on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:28PM (#25539179)

Presumably HN mods resubmitted this through the second chance pool (which treats an older submission and its comments as if they are new, but in some places that magic leaks ;))

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by mattogodoy on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:38AM (#25557926)

Thanks! Sorry for the delay in the reply.

I'm not sure if it will work in other recorders. I wrote them an email asking if the remote is compatible with various models. I'll post their answer in the GitHub repo (https://github.com/mattogodoy/h6/issues/1) as soon as they write back.

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by RileyJames on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:12PM (#25540218)

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!

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by mattogodoy on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:42AM (#25557947)

Thank you!

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by im3w1l on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:05PM (#25540183)

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

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by su1000 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:57AM (#25550441)

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

Check

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by gbraad on Friday December 25, 2020 @11:59PM (#25541504)

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.

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by mattogodoy on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:41AM (#25557940)

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.

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by phaedrus on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:11PM (#25544715)

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

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by stefanmichael on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:55PM (#25539334)

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

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Re:Show HN: I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 ... by rckoepke on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:17PM (#25539465)

Yes, there are a certain small number of usernames here whose submissions are generated by AI, this is clearly one.

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