[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Service API 0.28

[Bill Meek]

On 04/20/2016 01:31 PM, Paul Raison wrote:
> I have recently updated to 0.28 and have encountered a problem with the frontend service API. It seems that the SendAction is being ignored. I’m using this as an example:
>
> wget -O sendaction --post-data ‘Action=DOWN' http://192.168.x.x:6547/Frontend/SendAction
>
> Mythfrontend responds with an xml file containing the boolean true, so assuming that this has been accepted fine. However, it never performs the action. SendKey works fine, which is ok for up / down etc but I need SendAction for jumping to recordings, live tv etc. I had this all working perfectly under 0.27.
>
> Is this a known issue? Am I missing something? BTW I’m using the latest 0.28 Mythbuntu PPA build.

Hi,

It's a bug and I haven't seen anyone else mention it.

If you can build from source, I can get you a patch.
But that won't help much for the PPA. I also don't
have any error checking added yet but:

     'Action=Program Guide'

for example works. It's not clear to me why it
started failing. I don't see changes to the
SendAction code, but Qt5 is a big part of the
0.28 release and SendAction uses QKeyEvent.

-- 
Bill