<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Anthony Giggins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seven@seven.dorksville.net">seven@seven.dorksville.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The protocol has been reverse engineered for some time now and is in XBMC<br><br><a href="http://blog.technologeek.org/airtunes-v2" target="_blank">http://blog.technologeek.org/airtunes-v2</a><br><br>and there is also python wrapper script<br>
<br><a href="https://github.com/PascalW/Airplayer" target="_blank">https://github.com/PascalW/Airplayer</a><br><br>has anyone looked any further into adding this into mythtv?<br><br>if not I may look into writing a backend script for the python airplayer<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The backend stuff just looks like a series of wrapper commands to interact with a piece of software and telling it to play a given URL as well as stop/start/etc. commands. MythTV already has a telnet interface with a PLAY command. It seems like it would be easy for the backend script to simply open the frontend telnet port and issue:</div>
<div><br></div><div>play file URL</div><div><br></div><div>and then also issue pause/play commands as needed</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet#play">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet#play</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div>