Pythonista application which controls HoloLens recording.

HoloRecorder.py

import ui
import console
import requests
import base64

isRecording = False
url = "192.168.0." # Input Device Portal url
token = ""

def btnAuth_tapped(sender):
	global token

	h = makeHeader(sender)
	u = "https://" + url

	try:
		r = requests.get(url=u, headers=h, verify=False)
	except requests.exceptions.Timeout as e:
		print(e)
		return
	except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
		print(e)
		return
	token = r.headers['Set-Cookie']
	showResponse(sender, r.text)

def btnRec_tapped(sender):
	global isRecording
	global token

	h = makeHeader(sender)
	h["x-csrf-token"] = token.replace("CSRF-Token=", "")

	if isRecording == False:
		isRecording = True
		btn = sender.superview['btnRecord']
		btn.title = "Stop"
		api = "/api/holographic/mrc/video/control/start"
		p = "?holo=true&pv=true&mic=true&loopback=true"
		u = "http://" + url + api + p
	else:
		isRecording = False
		btn = sender.superview['btnRecord']
		btn.title = "Record"
		api = "/api/holographic/mrc/video/control/stop"
		u = "http://" + url + api

	try:
		r = requests.post(url=u, headers=h, verify=False)
	except requests.exceptions.Timeout as e:
		print(e)
		return
	except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
		print(e)
		return
	showResponse(sender, r.text)

def makeHeader(sender):
	user = sender.superview['user']
	password = sender.superview['pass']

	headers = {}
	u =  user.text + ":" + password.text
	auth = base64.b64encode(u.encode('utf-8'))
	headers["authorization"] = "Basic " + auth.decode('utf-8')
	
	return headers

def showResponse(sender, resText):
	view = sender.superview['resText']
	if resText == "":
		view.text = "The response was empty."
	else:
		view.text = resText

v = ui.load_view()
v.present('sheet')

UI settings are below.