[mythtv] API Bug or Feature?

[Greg Thompson]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:

>  If you want more than the basic channel info you need to include
> "details=true" in the request string. By default the additional info is
> excluded since the programme guide already returns a lot of information and
> many users of the API need to keep the bandwidth usage down (mobile data,
> low bit rate connections etc). Looking up some of the additional data also
> requires additional database queries so it's marginally slower.
>
> Adding "details=true" will also return more data about each programme in
> the guide. If you're writing an app for use with a mobile data connection
> (instead of wifi) then you're users may appreciate the difference between
> looking up all data even when it's not required and only fetching that data
> on-demand. For example only fetching the programme description if the user
> selects/highlights the programme.
>
>
> Adding Details=True to the GetProgramGuide call does in fact return the
Visible field, However every channel is marked True. This must be a bug in
.27 fixes.. When I use the Channel API the correct value of False is
returned for the channels marked False.

Greg
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