[mythtv-users] Controlling TV via Myth

[yan seiner]

mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk wrote:

>On Monday 20 February 2006 18:25, yan seiner wrote:
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>>I have a Sharp LC series TV.  It can be controlled from a PC via a
>>serial port.  What I really want is a way to 'click through' to the TV,
>>so that I can click on a Watch Live TV menu option in myth, and it will
>>set the TV from HDMI input to TV.  I could also send channel change
>>info  via LIRC....
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>>And then click on some key - 'quit' maybe - on the remote and have Myth
>>set the TV back from TV to HDMI input.
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>>Can this be done?
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>In theory yes but it's possible that Sharp have some kind of proprietary 
>connection protocol that only works from their windows app...
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Actually Sharp puts the codes in the User's Manual, which is kind of 
refreshing...

>Assuming that it isn't though you'd just need a little script to send the 
>correct codes and use irexec to run that from the various keys.
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That's the plan.  That part should be simple.

>Not sure about calling a script before going into live tv but ISTR that all 
>the frontend screens are editable so you might be able to edit the option to 
>call an external script that sets it then calls the watch live tv option.
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I looked in the menus (the xml files) and all I found was some 
references to what I assumed were internal tags....

What parses the xml menus?  And where would I include the call to my app?

--Yan