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Michael,
did you get any takers for your $1000
offer?
Personally, I'd have just used some/all of the existing
"jump points" that are in myth (a keystroke that takes you to
a specific/known location/view) in conjunction with lircd as a socket
listner daemon for stuffing extra/following
key-strokes. Stuffing key strokes works, so
long as you know with certainty what your starting point was (hence the jump
point/s).
Anyway, are you still looking for somone to do
it? If so, let me know, and let me know a timeframe. I'd
expect I could do it within a month, probably less. ( My
C++ is a bit rusty). ... but my C is less rusty.... to be honest, my perl
is light-years ahead of them both. (yes, I've written daemon/s reliably in
perl before) ... if you are interested in some of my prior work have a look at
http://netreg.sf.net v2 was
almost entirely my work - written for, and implemented by Griffith University,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. (and still in use 2+ years
later).
Buzz.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Anderson Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2005 5:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mythtv] $1,000 offer for a Myth front-end socket control I am supposed to present a client
with PVR options for their set-top box, both open source like Myth and VDR, and
closed, proprietary ones we license. We would like to present a
Myth-solution, but cannot because we never found a way to send the Myth
front-end commands directly, such as over a socket. It seems LIRC and
other programs that want to control Myth just simulate keystrokes (ie send an
‘up’ key when it’s time to change the channel). We’ve done this too, but
the end-result is pretty unusable; we can’t definitely make the EPG appear when
the user hits the ‘EPG’ button on his remote, we can only send a keypress which,
depending on what’s onscreen, may or may not have the desired
effect. I’ve done similar things with other
open source projects, and it’s usually a trivial task, like a day or two.
There’s probably just 1 place where an interceptor or hook needs to go that
opens a socket and listens for commands, and relays those commands back into the
Myth frontend. And we already have socket classes to encapsulate all that
work. But I know nothing about Myth front-end’s architecture and have some
other deadlines, so I got approval to offer $1,000 to anybody who would do
it. Hopefully with Myth it’s also just a day or two for someone who knows
where to put those hooks. Details are: ---------DELIVERABLE----------- We would provide the ‘client app’: a
C++ console app (ie no X), compilable with gcc on Linux 2.6 kernel that contains
a class with function stubs for each of the commands to be implemented
below. The developer can type the commands in the console to make the app
call the function stubs. We assume responsibility for giving you this
client app. The deliverable is: a) adding the code to Myth front end so
that it allows this external client app to communicate commands and get status
info directly, likely by listening on a socket, and b) adding the code to the
client app to connect to whatever Myth front end is running on the current box
and implementing the function stubs. The end result is you can run Myth
front end (it’s sitting at the menu), and you can run this new client app, which
will say something like ‘connected to Myth front end’, and then you can type
into the client app ‘goto EPG’ and the EPG appears, and ‘goto normal tv’ and
‘tune to channel 50’, ‘set playback speed=pause’, and Myth will be on channel 50
with paused video. Again, we will give you the client app that accepts the
commands from the console, parses them, and calls the appropriate
functions. We already have a c++ class that handles socket communications
if you wish to use it. ---------PAYMENT
TERMS------------- Payment terms: $500 via your choice
of paypal, IKobo, or U.S. check as soon as you can show that you know how to do
it, by providing a client app and Myth front end where the client app can
connect to Myth and do 1 thing, jump directly to the EPG or live tv no matter
what Myth’s current state, without using keyboard stuffing. There’s no
need to provide source code at this point—just show that you know how to do it.
The other $500 paid immediately when it’s done and we are able to send the
commands listed below and have Myth execute them regardless of the front end’s
current state. Any code for Myth must be submitted back under the GPL
license, of course, so this same mechanism can be used for tighter integration
with LIRC. --------------Commands to be
implemented---------------- Tune to Specific
Channel Channel
Up/Down Goto time
code Set Playback Speed (ie 4x, -1x
rewind, 0x pause, 1/4x, etc.) Goto Mode or Menu (parameter is the
menu: ie goto EPG menu, goto ‘normal viewing tv’, goto ‘recorded tv options’,
goto ‘setup screen’) Play a given
file/recording Get Current Timecode (including
indicating if it’s time lapse tv or live tv) Get Current Status (ie live tv, time
lapse tv, etc., and what mode is active: epg, tv viewing,
etc. Move OSD (move highlight
up/down/left/right, page u/d/l/r, hit enter – same thing like simulating
keypresses) Goto input on TV Tuner
card Jump to beginning of ring
buffer Jump to live
TV Eventually the other Myth commands
should be supported, and that can be discussed later, but this is enough for me
to make my demo. You can email replies back to this
list or directly to michael.anderson [at] plutohome [dot]
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