[mythtv-users] New Sky+ App - control Sky box via tcp/ip network

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Dave Pearson <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>wrote:

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> -----Original message-----
> *From:* Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> *Sent:* Thu 16-08-2012 21:14
> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] New Sky+ App - control Sky box via tcp/ip
> network
> *To:* Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>;
> On 8/16/2012 10:38, Dave Pearson wrote:
> > Before anyone says why don't I do it myself - I'm not clever enough!
>
> Sure you are, you just don't know you are. Grab a copy of wireshark or
> tcpdump and have at it. Just start it up, and record the communications
> between the iPad and the STB as you perform various actions. The only
> real difficulty would be if they decided it was necessary to perform
> some kind of authentication between the STB and application, or worse,
> encrypted the communication.
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> OK, I wasn't clever enough to use wireshark to figure out how to send the
> control commands to my SKY+HD Box, but someone else was (
> http://www.gladdy.co.uk/blog/2012/08/21/the-skyhd-picasso-dnla-control-server-protocol/)
> and using the information on that page I have been able to use firefox
> poster to send a command to change the channel. I'm now trying to take what
> I'm using in poster to create a bash script that I can use to change the
> channel in mythtv, unfortunately I'm having no luck with curl at all.
>
>
>
> This is what I'm POSTing using poster:
>
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> headers:
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> SOAPACTION: urn:schemas-nds-com:service:SkyPlay:2#SetAVTransportURI
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> content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
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> body:
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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> <s:Envelope s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:s="http://schemas.smlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
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> <s:Body>
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> <u:SetAVTransportURI xmlns:u="urn:schemas-nds-com:service:SkyPlay:2">
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> <InstanceID>0</InstanceID>
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> <CurrentURI>xsi://ff0</CurrentURI>
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> <CurrentURIMetaData>NOT_IMPLEMENTED</CurrentURIMetaData>
>
> </u:SetAVTransportURI>
>
> </s:Body>
>
> </s:Envelope>
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>
> Using the above code in poster I mange to change the channel to ff0, which
> is the hex code for channel 113 (Universal HD), unfortunately I just cannot
> figure out how I can get curl to POST the body text (I think the headers
> are being passed correctly. I'm sure this is really simple, but I'm just
> stuck! any help will be gratefully received.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>

can wget do this?
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