[mythtv-users] MythTV Sirius Satellite Radio Integration

Byron Poland wpoland at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 00:23:11 UTC 2007


On 4/6/07, Josh <TwoOneSix at thatclothingco.com> wrote:
> Well, I have finally sat down and integrated Sirius Satellite Radio with
> both of my MythTV frontends. It was so easy to get setup I figured I'd
> create a Wiki article to document how I did it. I'm actually pretty
> happy with the results and I hope people find it useful.
>
> Take note that this is a "hack" (as I point out a few times in the Wiki)
> and NOT a real plug-in so it doesn't do a lot of the things I originally
> wanted it to do... I started to develop a plug-in and then they
> announced the Sirius-XM merger. Then on top of that, I stumbled upon a
> python script called sipie (which is what ended up being the core of the
> Wiki article) and decided that I didn't need to invest a lot of time
> into a plug-in that could end up being defunct in a few months. At any
> rate, check it out and let me know what you think and please feel free
> to correct the Wiki or add any useful information you discover.
>
> The article is listed in the How-To section of the Wiki and/or directly
> at this URL: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Integrate_Sirius
>
> --
> Josh
>

I haven't played around too much with integrating this into Mythtv,
but....  I think it might be possible to get rudimentary advanced
playback working, and maybe more down the road...

Anyway I was able to change the player command in the sipie config
file to use vlc and save the stream (mplayer should be able to do this
too, I just couldn't get it to work) the line and command looks like
this:

player = vlc --intf dummy --sout file/asf:/some/director/file.asf

I was thinking it would be possible to wrap this in a bash script
starting it, and then a delay to start mplayer playing the file.  once
that is done, if you have lirc support in mplayer and remote support,
you can pause, rewind and skip around in the stream.  Not sure how to
combine it with the song titles et al.

Just some thoughts based on playing with the command line.


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