[mythtv] Mythtv <-> Misterhouse (GPL home automation program)

[Wayne A. Hogue II]

Robert Rozman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just tried Mythtv and it rocks (thanks for great work). I'm using
>Misterhouse as main home automation backend and I like it, but it lacks
>better multimedia and GUI (it wasn't intent for this purpose). I'm searching
>for right solution and tried Freevo and Mythtv. Both have potentials,
>allthough maybe mythtv is more mature - but in another thought it's probably
>harder to write plugins in C than in python (for Freevo).
>
>I'd like to ask some questions about possibilities and different features
>that in my opinion are needed in home environment before I dig deeper into
>docs:
>- Misterhouse is monitoring house devices all the time. What are
>possibilities to display these informations on mythtv screen (something like
>status bar that gets updated every few seconds, and maybe OSD message that
>gets poped up when someone is at the front door, or put remainder on screen
>for washing machine ...)
>
this is in there, just need to write an approait util to send the udp 
packets.  (see mythtvosd)

>- how can I easily write plugin that would control/check house devices
>(Misterhouse has all kinds of interfaces - TCP port server, xmlrpc, web,...)
>and how to generate menu for those devices ?
>
take a look at mythvideo and the other plugins.

>- is it possible to write separate frontends? Is frontend/backend protocol
>documented ? I guess it some kind of TCP connection... Where does frontend
>
just by way of source AFAIK

>get media files - through disk share or through streaming ?
>  
>
Streaming  from the backend server.


-Wayne (Chiphead)