[mythtv-users] MythWeb + myth-remote-control

[Adam Bodnar]

You really wouldn't need a cgi script.

With the telnet interface, you can have php open a socket to the ip
the backend is on and have it issue the commands.

Something like this.

<?
$address = 127.0.0.1

$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);

$result = socket_connect($socket, $address, 6545);

$command = "PLAY whatever_file.nuv";

socket_write($socket, $command, strlen($command));

socket_close($socket);
?>

On 1/29/06, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit recently about a feature I mentioned a couple
> months ago, and it seems more implementable now.  (Is MythWeb covered
> by the current feature freeze? :)
>
> The idea is to be able to browse recordings in MythWeb, but, if you
> clicked on the image in any given row, to have the frontend play it
> instead of having it streamed to the browser.  This is handy in
> situations where you don't necessarily have a pre-established
> playlist, and would like to start the next recording on the fly while
> the previous one is still playing.  (Useful for VJ'ing, for meetings
> in which you're presenting a bunch of short clips, for those of us who
> find a browser on a close-up high-res screen much more readable than
> the TV on the other side of the room, etc etc.)  Obviously, this would
> be optional, so the existing behavior of streaming directly to the
> browser still works for those who want it.
>
> Originally, it looked like the way to do this was to send a different
> URL to the browser such that the image link ran a cgi script that then
> talked to the frontend (which might not be the same as the backend
> machine), and which then ran mplayer right on top of the frontend GUI.
> This is inelegant in a number of ways, though.
>
> But with the recent work that went into SVN (courtesy of the bounty
> that was paid for the added functionality) for remote-controlling the
> frontend from elsewhere, this could be a lot easier:  Each of the rows
> in MythWeb's recorded-programs page has a URL that runs a cgi script
> that gets handed some ID for the program (whatever's easiest to put in
> the URL and look up in the DB later), and the cgi script then commands
> the frontend to play that recording directly, just as if the user
> navigated there via the frontend's UI.  Seems very simple.
>
> The clean way to implement this would be to augment MythWeb to run an
> arbitrary script (e.g., the cgi script gets configured to call one of
> potentially several scripts, and hands it the program ID), and the
> first (but maybe not only) script to actually get written would be the
> one that takes the program ID and tells the frontend remote-control to
> play it.
>
> MythWeb would need two additional configuration options somewhere:
> o Whether to enable this behavior at all
> o Which frontend to use, if there is more than one
>
> How feasible does this sound?
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