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<blockquote data-quote="mzemina" data-source="post: 23469" data-attributes="member: 11677">knutinh - girder is a very powerful, hard to understand, closed source,&nbsp; commercial tool. It would be great to get a free, opensource, simple to operate plugin to work hand-in-hand with MediaPortal.When you say you have a dumb driver. Did you develope it?I've seen on an alternate HTPC frontend (MainLobby) that creating plugins for various vendors AV equipment has been thing that a couple of developers have sunk their teeth into. Almost always it requires vendor documentation and most of the times it does require the hardware, depending on the complexity of the commands being sent to the equipment.I was thinking whatever protocol is needed to access the available AV equipment as long as it has a communication port.Sounds like you have a purpose. Forget about what I would like to see. If you have the ability and the drive to make it happen - I say go for it! That is the whole point behind open source software. If someone else wants to turn what you have created into a more elaborate controlling subsystem then they have the basics to work off of.Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mzemina, post: 23469, member: 11677"] knutinh - girder is a very powerful, hard to understand, closed source, commercial tool. It would be great to get a free, opensource, simple to operate plugin to work hand-in-hand with MediaPortal. When you say you have a dumb driver. Did you develope it? I've seen on an alternate HTPC frontend (MainLobby) that creating plugins for various vendors AV equipment has been thing that a couple of developers have sunk their teeth into. Almost always it requires vendor documentation and most of the times it does require the hardware, depending on the complexity of the commands being sent to the equipment. I was thinking whatever protocol is needed to access the available AV equipment as long as it has a communication port. Sounds like you have a purpose. Forget about what I would like to see. If you have the ability and the drive to make it happen - I say go for it! That is the whole point behind open source software. If someone else wants to turn what you have created into a more elaborate controlling subsystem then they have the basics to work off of. Mike [/QUOTE]

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