[junk]

Hi,

I was wondering how hard it would be to build a XBMC TV-client that could connect to MediaPortals TV-server?

No fancy functions, just watch TV and change channels. Is it possible at all? Is it doable in a Python-plugin, or would I need to get into the XBMC source?

Can you guys even imagine how neat it would be!?

[Gamester17]

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[Swifty]

junk, the main problem you will face with this at the moment is that XBMC is unable to play the streams from Mediaportals TVServer.. it was working ok under Atlantis, but somewhere between that and Babylon it broke.

There is a trac ticket open for this but I don't know if anything will be done since it's probably something non standard that Mediaportal is doing?

Anyway in answer to your question, you can take a look at 'MP-TV Client' in the Mediaportal forums, thats a small app along with source that connects to the TV server and starts timeshifting etc.
If you add a http listener to that you could command it from Python, alternatively there is also the 'ForTheRecord' plugin for Mediaportal which uses a web interface to expose TV-Server control..

[junk]

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junk, the main problem you will face with this at the moment is that XBMC is unable to play the streams from Mediaportals TVServer.. it was working ok under Atlantis, but somewhere between that and Babylon it broke.

There is a trac ticket open for this but I don't know if anything will be done since it's probably something non standard that Mediaportal is doing?

Anyway in answer to your question, you can take a look at 'MP-TV Client' in the Mediaportal forums, thats a small app along with source that connects to the TV server and starts timeshifting etc.
If you add a http listener to that you could command it from Python, alternatively there is also the 'ForTheRecord' plugin for Mediaportal which uses a web interface to expose TV-Server control..

Thank you for the answer!

Can it play streams generated from VLC? If so I could write a app running on the server with the TV-card that XBMC could send commands to to change channels.

[Swifty]

It can indeed, see here; http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mp-tv-...oad-36229/