<div><Senseless self promotion follows></div><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>For those following the "android API" thread, I sort of let the lid off my new iPad application for MythTV .25. MythTV Companion is a full featured control, library browser, recording manager, and (in the near future) streaming frontend for MythTV. It takes advantage of our new API to stream recording and video metadata, imagery, scheduling, setup, and guide info to a native iOS application. Best of all, because of the nature of our backend uPnP server and API, there is absolutely no configuration required in most cases. Backends and frontends are autodetected, and no MySQL usernames, passwords, arcane setup, or other steps are necessary. You simply fire up the application and go. I'll say it again because it bears clarifying: There is absolutely no setup of any kind required, nor are there any additional software requirements on any of your PCs-- everything you see here is native to a out of the box MythTV setup. The only requirement will be MythTV frontend and backends running .25 (upon release).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The following video is an up-to-the-minute walkthrough of what the app is capable of today, though there's quite a lot more on the way. I'll keep quiet on the upcoming changes, but suffice to say you ain't seen nothing yet. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://vimeo.com/32063038">http://vimeo.com/32063038</a><div><br></div><div>Some FAQs:</div><div><br></div><div>* I will probably put this on the App Store when I am done. I have purchased a iOS dev license.</div>
<div>* License is TBD, but will not be GPL.</div><div>* Cost, if any, is TBD-- I would like to recoup the cost of the dev license/iPad, but I may just make the app free and see if people would be willing to donate a bit to offset these development costs.</div>
<div>* Documentation on the new Services API is available here: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Services_API" style="background-color: transparent; ">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Services_API</a></div><div>* The Services API framework was written by David Blain, and has been substantially extended by a number of us since then to include lots of new services and methods, including Frontend state checking and control, capture card configuration, and a bunch of other goodies. It is the basis for our work on the HTTP Backend setup rewrite, due in a future version of MythTV.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Robert McNamara</div><div>MythTV</div>