[mythtv] Programatic remote control of mythfrontend

Carl namuch at namuch.net
Sat Oct 29 12:24:00 EDT 2005


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?


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