Thought I post a Backburner hack and some telnet info for those still struggling to network render with backburner… ( Like us… Uhhggg… )
I've written a Python command line utility to set Dependencies in BackBurner after submission. To use it, the network folder on the manager needs to have a full control share open to the artists box. Python connects to the manager via Telnet. Archives the job and then makes specific changes to the xml document on the server. Upon unarchiving the job, backburner reads the changed xml data and applies the changes.
I couldn’t find a way to send the “Update Job” to BB via telnet, it appears to be binary, while every other command is xml… ?
Syntax for usage.
BBSetDependency <Ip Address> <Port> <Dependent Job Name> <Depends on Job Name> {<Depends on Job Name> ...}
Also including in the zip is a txt document outlining some of the other telnet commands I found while sniffing the connection between BB and the monitor.
Much thanks to David Mackenzie < specxor > for PyBurner, my starting point for this!