Develop a GUI/App for Recording (1 Viewer)

[heppi]

Hi,

I installed MP and I think that's an excellent software. Now I want to develop a windows software or an smartphone app for managing the recordings.

I do not know any thing about the code behind, so I have a few questions:

1. I need the EPG data. Can I simply use the data from Programm table?
2. If I want to create a recording from a other program, can I simply add a database row into the recording table? Do I have to notify the MP Server that there is a new recording?
3. Is there a documentation for recording and schedule table?

Thank you for help

 

[jameson_uk]

Yes you can use the program table to get at epg data. (You will need to pick up the links to the channel table to get channel details and also possibly split between tv and radio)

Adding the schedule is not so much a case of adding a row to the database but there are various things (such as conflict management to take into account).

There is no API as such and therefore documentation is not there. The MP source is available and you can look at the code involved with adding a new schedule from within the tv plugin. It is not that simple but you should be able to get the idea.

You do know there are some smartphone apps that do this already?