[mythtv] Programatic remote control of mythfrontend

[Buzz]

Couldn't this be done with a combination of (1) keyboard commands to control
frintend al-ah LIRC and every remote-controled myth install and (2) feedback
to "controlling app" via STDOUT/STDERR output parsing for known/expected
responses?   Much easier to write a simple STDOUT parser than a full TCP/IP
server. :-)

Buzz.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Carl
Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2005 2:24 AM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: [mythtv] Programatic remote control of mythfrontend

Would any devs care to comment on the potential difficulty of adding a
simple means to control a running instance of the frontend from an external
program?

I would like to test the viability of a tivo-style live-tv program guide,
but I would prefer to do it outside of the main program (in case it turns
out to be unworkable).

But to make this work, I would need to have some means of telling the
frontend what to do.  What channel to change to for example.

It would also be nice to be able to query the frontend, to find out if it's
watching live-tv and what channel it's on.

I was thinking of just a simple tcp server in the frontend, that could
respond to requests from clients with status information, and maybe pass on
requests for channel to the regular event handling system..

Is this doable?  Or, is it already doable by some other means?
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