[mythtv] API Bug or Feature?

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Wed May 14 20:25:37 UTC 2014


If you want more than the basic channel info you need to include 
"details=true" in the request string. By default the additional info is 
excluded since the programme guide already returns a lot of information and 
many users of the API need to keep the bandwidth usage down (mobile data, 
low bit rate connections etc). Looking up some of the additional data also 
requires additional database queries so it's marginally slower.

Adding "details=true" will also return more data about each programme in 
the guide. If you're writing an app for use with a mobile data connection 
(instead of wifi) then you're users may appreciate the difference between 
looking up all data even when it's not required and only fetching that data 
on-demand. For example only fetching the programme description if the user 
selects/highlights the programme.

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