[ZwartePiet]

The new UPnP capable network tuners from Silicondust might allow recording without a backend. A command is available to tune a channel for a specific amount of time (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:5004/auto/v5.1?duration=120). I'm not a programmer, but it seems like the IPTVSimple front-end could be used to schedule a wget command using cron. Relevant information would be pulled from the EPG and the output folder would be set in the configuration menu.

Recording a 30 minute episode "The One With Something" of the program "Friends" on channel 4.1 at 8:00pm, January 11 to a network folder at smb://storage/record/ would create the following cron job:

Code:

0 20 11 1 /usr/bin/wget http://192.168.0.100:5004/auto/v4.1?duration=1800 -O smb://storage/record/Friends-The_One_With_Something.ts

Recording a 60 minute episode of "Drugs, Drugs Everywhere" of the program "Hawaii 5-0", starting 2 minutes early and ending 2 minutes late, on channel 2.1 at 2:00am, January 10 to a network folder at smb://storage/record/ would create the following cron job:

Code:

58 1 10 1 /usr/bin/wget http://192.168.0.100:5004/auto/v2.1?duration=3840 -O smb://storage/record/Hawaii-5-0-Drugs,_Drugs_Everywhere.ts

I have no idea how to implement this... but it seems like it could work! Any thoughts?

[Ned Scott]

That would indeed be awesome :D