[mythtv] Information about MythTv Protocol

[Simon Kenyon]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 07:37, Jochen Kühner wrote:
> I'd like to start a Project Mythfrontend fort he psp.
>
> I wont to know where to get information about the myth protocol.

check out the thread "Changing channels via myth protocol from a python script 
not working" initiated by Mudit Wahal <mwahal at gmail.com>

he is working on an implementation of the protocol
--
simon
ps see email below

> Hi All,
> 
> I found a python script to connect to backend and record/change
> channels etc. The script is at  http://www.visi.com/~erl/myth.py . I
> had to change the protocol version number and QUERY_IS_ACTIVE_BACKEND
> request. Parsing programming is still broken. Now I can connect to the
> backend and query the recorder. I can see the logs in the backend and
> they are all OK. I was able to catch 2 MB of live TV and transfer into
> a file using the transfer_live() function.
> 
> My problem is that neither QUERY_RECORDER:CHANGE_CHANNEL nor
> QUERY_RECORDER:SET_CHANNEL are working. I see ok response at the
> backend. But when I try to record the live TV, it still only records
> from the channel to which backend was tuned before the script ran.
> Querying of current program info only returns the original channel.
> 
> I'm trying to write scripts to change channel/volume via web
> interface. This is useful for clients which cant run myth frontend but
> have a web browser builtin. The web browser will connect to a
> webserver running at the backend machine. There will be links to
> change channel up/down, volume up/down. The client will have ability
> to play a nfs/samba mounted filesystem. So I can share the liveTV
> cache ring buffer and let the client play that file. I can change
> channels via the web browser. Sort of a crude way but if its works,
> it'll be great !
> 
> If anyone is interested, I'll post the script and detailed log from
> the script and the backend.
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> 
> Mudit