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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 552"><p>nettiger,</p><p></p><p>Spent some time on this tonight and made great progress. But, I hope you are OK with the direction I'm going.</p><p></p><p>I have chosen to work towards supporting external tuners using Girder:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.girder.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.girder.nl/</a></p><p></p><p>If you aren't familliar with Girder, please take a moment to read up on it. Particularly the "Getting Started with Girder" section:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.girder.nl/help/gettingstarted/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.girder.nl/help/gettingstarted/index.php</a></p><p></p><p>Girder is very powerful, albiet somewhat confusing to get setup the first time. Both SnapStream and ShowShifter have support for external tuners using Girder (although now SnapStream supports the USB-UIRT directly).</p><p></p><p>I thought about going after the USB-UIRT directly myself, but that would only benefit me. If we go through Girder, it opens up the opportunity to support many other IR blasters and serial port controlled devices that are already written as plugins for girder. The downside, of course, is that Girder costs $20.</p><p></p><p>Tonight I was successful in teaching Girder how to communicate through the USB-UIRT with my Sony receiver here in my office. I was also able to write a quick little application in C# to turn the receiver on and off and even change channels. It was surprisingly easy once I understood how it all fits together.</p><p></p><p>If we do actually bring this interface to MediaPortal, we will want to get an official unique Girder plugin number:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.girder.nl/developer.php" target="_blank">http://www.girder.nl/developer.php</a></p><p></p><p>SSGirderTuner, for example, is plugin #74.</p><p></p><p>I could whip up the code for the external link with Girder in about 10 minutes. But the problem I have is how to integrate it with MediaPortal and the way they do their tuners. As I've said before, I'd really like the help of one of the devs that's familliar with the code. But if they aren't interested and someone else has looked at it and is comfortable working with me to get it in, then drop me a line.</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p></p><p>eXe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 552"] nettiger, Spent some time on this tonight and made great progress. But, I hope you are OK with the direction I'm going. I have chosen to work towards supporting external tuners using Girder: [url]http://www.girder.nl/[/url] If you aren't familliar with Girder, please take a moment to read up on it. Particularly the "Getting Started with Girder" section: [url]http://www.girder.nl/help/gettingstarted/index.php[/url] Girder is very powerful, albiet somewhat confusing to get setup the first time. Both SnapStream and ShowShifter have support for external tuners using Girder (although now SnapStream supports the USB-UIRT directly). I thought about going after the USB-UIRT directly myself, but that would only benefit me. If we go through Girder, it opens up the opportunity to support many other IR blasters and serial port controlled devices that are already written as plugins for girder. The downside, of course, is that Girder costs $20. Tonight I was successful in teaching Girder how to communicate through the USB-UIRT with my Sony receiver here in my office. I was also able to write a quick little application in C# to turn the receiver on and off and even change channels. It was surprisingly easy once I understood how it all fits together. If we do actually bring this interface to MediaPortal, we will want to get an official unique Girder plugin number: [url]http://www.girder.nl/developer.php[/url] SSGirderTuner, for example, is plugin #74. I could whip up the code for the external link with Girder in about 10 minutes. But the problem I have is how to integrate it with MediaPortal and the way they do their tuners. As I've said before, I'd really like the help of one of the devs that's familliar with the code. But if they aren't interested and someone else has looked at it and is comfortable working with me to get it in, then drop me a line. Regards, eXe [/QUOTE]
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