[mythtv-users] DirecTV HTTP Server

[Greg Oliver]

On 11/22/2010 12:15 PM, jmk wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 06:51 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> Hmmmm.  This morning, all is right with the universe I guess..  All of
>> the receivers are responding properly.  I should have checked before I
>> connected a hub between those network segments and grabbed packet
>> captures.  Waste of time.  I do not know what the glitch was yesterday,
>> but I did double check my receivers and my HR21 that was experiencing
>> issues yesterday has not been updated since 8/23.  Definitely not in
>> line with your observations (plus I see no unauthorized messages, etc).
>
> The "getTuned" request works fine on your H21? Here's what I'm seeing
> for that query:
>
> % echo 'GET /tv/getTuned HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'|netcat 192.168.1.5 8080
> HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden.
> Content-Length: 100
> Content-Type: application/json
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:04:41 GMT
> Reason:  Command(s) disabled.
>
> {"status": {
>    "code": 403,
>    "msg": "Forbidden. Command(s) disabled.",
>    "query": "/tv/getTuned"
> }}
>
> After further testing, the "tune" command does still work for me. I'm
> not sure what happened yesterday morning that caused it to fail,
> resulting in a missed recording. I performed a few manual tune requests
> and the response is now "OK.", where I think it was previously "OK". A
> minor adjustment to the script to match that and it no longer spits out
> an error.
>
> % echo 'GET /tv/tune?major=206 HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'|netcat 192.168.1.5 8080
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK.
> Content-Length: 78
> Content-Type: application/json
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:04:21 GMT
>
> {"status": {
>    "code": 200,
>    "msg": "OK.",
>    "query": "/tv/tune?major=206"
> }}

I have never used getTuned..  Not really a use in it for me..  My hr21 
was tuning yesterday morning, but the script was not returning success, 
so I imagine mythtv was not moving on.  I do not know - did not have 
time to debug it.

I am almost done with my script to pull all of the HDDVR recorded shows 
into mythtv so I can record them off.  That was always a "manually done" 
plan, but now that there is a web interface to tune and play, it will be 
easy...  Then I can start retiring these things..

Hmmm, interesting - these dual-tuner directv dvrs would allow me to have 
3 recordings at once -

1.  Mythtv actually recording from the DVR a previously hddvr recorded 
program
2.  hddvr recording prog 1
3.  hddvr recording prog 2

I could then 1 at a time all of them each night from the dvr to myth.. 
Does anyone know how to get an xmltv entry approved and put into myth? 
A quick search on my system seem to point that they are all compiled in. 
  I'll just make up my own channels and guide data and manually insert 
them to prove the concept to myself  :)

The data returned from the hddvrs has all of the info needed to 
completely fill in the guide.  Albeit, the specifics do not match any 
xmltvinfo number scheme....

I'll make 1 channel per recording with it playing continuously 24x7 on 
that channel. Then if I set a low recording priority on all of those 
channels, and set them all to record anytie on this channel, it will 
grab them all when the hdpvr is going to be free..  Delete the recording 
from the hddvr, and the listing goes away in the mythtv guide..

Hmmm, this could be fun..