Couldn't this be done with a combination of (1) keyboard commands to control frintend al-ah LIRC and every remote-controled myth install and (2) feedback to "controlling app" via STDOUT/STDERR output parsing for known/expected responses? Much easier to write a simple STDOUT parser than a full TCP/IP server. :-)
Buzz. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2005 2:24 AM To: Development of mythtv Subject: [mythtv] Programatic remote control of mythfrontend Would any devs care to comment on the potential difficulty of adding a simple means to control a running instance of the frontend from an external program? I would like to test the viability of a tivo-style live-tv program guide, but I would prefer to do it outside of the main program (in case it turns out to be unworkable). But to make this work, I would need to have some means of telling the frontend what to do. What channel to change to for example. It would also be nice to be able to query the frontend, to find out if it's watching live-tv and what channel it's on. I was thinking of just a simple tcp server in the frontend, that could respond to requests from clients with status information, and maybe pass on requests for channel to the regular event handling system.. Is this doable? Or, is it already doable by some other means? _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
_______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
