pymel.core.animation.recordDevice

recordDevice(*args, **kwargs)

Starts and stops server side device recording. The data is recorded at the device rate. Once recorded, the data may be brought into Maya with the applyTake command.See also: enableDevice, applyTake, readTake, writeTake In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
cleanup (c)		bool
	Removes the recorded data from the device.Flag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
data (da)		bool
	Specifies if the device has recorded data. If the device is recording at the time of query, the flag will return false.Q: When queried, this flag returns an int.
device (d)		unicode
	Specifies which device(s) to start record recording. The listed device(s) will start recording regardless of their record enable state.C: The default is to start recording all devices that are record enabled.
duration (dr)		int
	Duration (in seconds) of the recording. When the duration expires, the device will still be in a recording state and must be told to stop recording.C: The default is 60.Q: When queried, this flag returns an int.
playback (p)		bool
	If any attribute is connected to an animation curve, the animation curve will play back while recording the device(s) including any animation curves attached to attributes being recorded.C: The default is false.Q: When queried, this flag returns an int.
state (st)		bool
	Start or stop device recording.C: The default is true.Q: When queried, this flag returns an int.
wait (w)		bool
	If -p/playback specified, wait until playback completion before returning control to the user. This flag is ignored if -p is not used.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.recordDevice

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

#    Record the clock device for 30 seconds and apply the data.
#
import time
pm.recordDevice( device='clock', duration=30 )
time.sleep( 30 )
pm.recordDevice( device='clock', state=False )
pm.applyTake( device='clock' )