[mythtv-users] Subject: Re: MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

[Tom Lichti]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/2012 14:46, kenkyee at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> The new web services API in 0.25 (when it's released) will do just
>> that. The developer of the app developed against .23 and .24 which
>> does not have the WS API.
>
> Excellent.  Thanks, Tom.
> That explains the "enable control by android/ios devices" checkbox that is
> in Mythbuntu but keeps getting unchecked on me... :-)
>
>
> That could actually be one of two things.  Mythfrontend has had a control
> server available through port 6546 for years, which many third party
> utilities, including ones for Android and iOS, have used to remotely control
> the frontend.  That is independent from similar behavior found in the new
> Services API.

Beat me to it. Unrelated to the Web Services, as far as I understand it.

Tom