Control Mediaportal externally? (1 Viewer)

[johncl]

Is there any way of controlling Mediaportal from an external application?

I am working on a robotics project and I want the robot to send a command to an agent running on the MediaPortal HTPC which should then command MediaPortal to do certain things. These are the features I am specifically looking for:

- Send a music playlist to mediaportal (or a link to a generated playlist file)
- Adjust volume of HTPC (I might do this directly though since volume is a PC global feature)
- Stop playing command (perhaps also Pause)
- Resume playing command

All other remote control options for Mediaportal would be welcome of course, for example have it play a movie (send it a filename to an avi/mpg).

Is there any such remote control plugin? Hopefully something that is general and easy to interface with from any language (through a socket or xmlrpc). I can take care of the playlist generation based on the input from the robot (would be based on genre or artist).

Edit: A quick google and e.g for Winamp I found this tool: CLAMP - Command Line Winamp
I would love to see something similar to this for MediaPortal as it would be an excellent remote control option with simple intergration (command line tools are really simple to interface).

 

[and-81]

There is nothing presently in existence to do this (that I'm aware of), but it would be a piece of cake to implement.

I've already got half the required framework in place in other stuff I've written, so I'll take a crack at implementing something for you when I get a few minutes.

It might be a few days though, I'm trying to wrap up a couple of things in the meantime...

Cheers,

 

[revs]

This would be great - I'd love to be able to send a command to bring up all the tv sections of MP (e.g. EPG, Recordings, etc)

 

[mrkaras]

Their is a "My keys" plugin (I think thats it name) that addes a lot of the missing keyboard shortcuts, you could then send keystrokes, if that would be enough.