The Xbox version of mythfrontend uses python to control myth, you can find it a sourceforge
Cheers David M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:56 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling mythtv from a web browser Phill Edwards wrote: >>I was wondering if anybody has actually managed to control mythtv from a web >>browser. I know you can schedule recordings and all that good stuff using >>Mythweb, but I was wondering if you can use a browser to change channels, >>start >>and end recordings etc etc. >> >>If you could do use a browser then you could use a cheapo colour wireless PDA >>rather than an expensive colour iPronto. This has all sort's of nice features >>that even expensive remote controls can't match. It's easy enough to knock up >>a >>web site, a PHP/Mythtv interface would be very interesting though. >> >>This would allow you to choose music through the PDA rather than the screen, >>which free's you from having to be in the right position in the room. >>Information on music choice could be sent back to the PDA rather than to the >>TV. >> >>I've googled for a large number of options on this and failed to find >>anything, >>so figure I'm not using the right search options. >> >>I suppose what I want is a nice API to mythtv that I can use. This API should >>return information as well, so that rules out a hack to LIRC. >> >> > >Couple of things I can think of: > >1) install vnc server which you could then control through a java >applet VNC viewer in a browser. > >2) Have a look at MythWifi - I think that's desiged to allow PDAs to >control MythTV. > > > Interesting, I hadn't seen MythWifi yet. I think there was also some work done on a Python interface to the Myth protocol that could easiliy be adapted to this use as well. Probably an archive search would turn that up. Kevin _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
