[Swifty]

Hi all,

I'm desperatley seeking to find a friendly usable way of getting live TV from Mediaportal into XBMC.

I was wondering if it is possible to get XBMC Python scripts to talk to a .net application so that it can use it as a 'middleman' to control the TV server ?

I already have some .net code that can start tv/change channel etc.. I just need some way of controlling that from inside XBMC and passing it the stream URL - unfortunatley I have zero experience with Pyhton so I was wondering if this 'stop gap' method of using a middleman would work until the UnifiedPVR is finished ?

*Edit*
Seconds after post this a thought occurred... http commands - I'm guessing that would be fairly straight forward to do much like XBMC uses the HTTP api, I could code something like this into the middleman and control it via http submissions.. Thoughts ?

[Gamester17]

See:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/genera...ipt-36590/
and this:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugin...07-a-2263/
and these:
http://forum.xbmc.org/tags.php?tag=mediaportal

...at least to start with, that is, if you do not want to checkout the unified PVR branch for XBMC for a native solution, (I believe that this is what EvilDude is waiting for):
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

Good luck and happy coding!

[Swifty]

Thanks Gamester, already checked out those links.
There is one working solution for Mediaportal (the script you linked to) but it's very clunky and doesn't offer full epg, recording capabilities etc..

I think I will look into the HTTP-API style route unless anyone has a better suggestion.