[mythtv-users] DirecTV HTTP Server

[Phil Bridges]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Steve Harrington
> <steve at the-harringtons.org> wrote:
>> Ran a port scan this morning of all my devices and noticed on my DirecTV H23
>> boxes there's now some web commands that can be run on port 8080.
>>
>> To access, put in a web
>> browser http://directv_receiver_ip:8080/info/getOptions
>>
>> To change a channel, put
>> in http://directv_receiver_ip:8080//tv/tune?major=chan_num
>> The functions return the data in JSON format.
>>
>> I'm probably going to write a wrapper program to change channels using this
>> instead of my serial port if it proves reliable and DirecTV doesn't take it
>> away.  I think this is fantastic.
>>
>> Hope others find this neat.
>> Steve
>
> This is excellent!  It will definitely help me *persuade* the rest of
> the family to start using mythtv when the directv dvrs start *acting
> up*   :)  I cannot believe they left this open like they did.

They did it for system integrators.  In fact, a little bit of googling
can turn up the full protocol document, I'd bet ;)