[EvilDude]

Originally Posted by rtv

The tvservice has an "heart beat" feature that will disconnect inactive clients automatically.

Hm the problem I have is that the server which is doing the actual talking to TV-Server will constantly be running, and so will remain active. I need some way to tell the server that "for this time shift, when the last client disconnects, stop timeshifting".

Originally Posted by elupus

Let me know how you get along. I've wanted to add filesystem support for TVServer for a long time, but been deterred by the lack of any usable interface. (.net remoting isn't very usable from the xbox side of things)

Just for reference, dvdplayer can already play the rtsp:// url the tvserver provides data from for livetv. Thus just some interface to tune to a channel, and returning the rtsp url would make it possible to get livetv streaming working.

Regards
elupus

Yeah, I'm considering doing this as a video python plugin, just to get something working. I've gotten all the server commands working : ListGroups, ListChannels, TimeshiftChannel, StopTimeshift. I'm now going to code the python video plugin to use these plugins. All my testing so far as been through telnet.

Originally Posted by Gamester17

@EvilDude, there is already a python script for XBMC that can control MediaPortal, (as I understand the only thing that script do not yet support is Live-TV streaming), so maybe you like to start by extending that existing script, see: MP & XBMC intergration scripts v0.6d Update 4-MAR-07 - MediaPortal Forum

I wanted to keep the TVServer stuff separate for now - just because it's easier, but also because I do not want to use MediaPortal on my PC, as I want my PC to be just the server, and XBMC to be my client, and the current plugin uses MediaPortal.