[mythtv] Myth Protocol Command to List Programs

[Ian Barton]

> Since the code to make the information available through XML is already 
> available, it's quite likely to "win" if the devs decide to go with a 
> single interface.
> 
> You can play with the XML stuff using:
> 
> wget 
> 'http://localhost:6544/Myth/GetProgramGuide?StartTime=2008-03-15T12:00:00&EndTime=2008-03-15T14:00:00&NumOfChannels=1&StartChanId=1021&Details=0' 
> -O listings.xml
> 
> to get a "summary" version or
> 
> wget 
> 'http://localhost:6544/Myth/GetProgramGuide?StartTime=2008-03-15T20:00:00&EndTime=2008-03-15T23:00:00&NumOfChannels=1&StartChanId=1021&Details=1' 
> -O listings-detail.xml
> 
> to get all program details.
> 
> Ian, if you're hoping to get it through the Python bindings, you may 
> need to add bindings support for querying/parsing the XML data.
> 
> See also contrib/development/MythXMLTest/ (I'm pretty sure in 
> 0.21-fixes, it's just under the contrib directory) for more details on 
> the XML interface.  David Blain (and a few others) has put a /lot/ of 
> good stuff in there that's not really being used, yet, though doing so 
> would be a /very/ good thing.  Much better than direct DB queries, at 
> least.  :)
> 
Thanks, I already have some code that queries the xml interface, but 
didn't realise that I could get the program data that way.

Ian.