[mythtv-users] Recording IPTV?

[Peter Carlsson]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 03:24:06PM +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:49:50 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >I was in contact with the IPTV provider today but according to them
> >the only available option to watch TV on a computer was to use a
> >browser and use their Play service.
> 
> That could be made to work in MythTV as long as the credentials are
> sent as part of the URL, rather than negotiated separately.  If they
> are separately negotiated, then you would probably need to write code
> (eg in Python) to create an external recorder for mythbackend.

That sounds encouraging.

I did a quick test with curl and it seems to work to provide the
credentials in the call.

Do you have any pointer to where I can read up on creating an
external recorder for the mythbackend?

> You would also need a source of EPG for the channels.  It may be
> possible to get that using a web based grabber if they provide
> listings on their web site.  Here is an example of a web based grabber
> that has been used with MythTV:
> 
> http://webgrabplus.com/

Best regards,
Peter Carlsson