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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDWestoby" data-source="post: 842927" data-attributes="member: 72093">If you don't think it's worth looking at, fine.I KNOW there are limitations with how to drive MediaPortal - this effectively presses keys for you, that's about it.(Trust me. I never managed to get a TV channel to play for more than a few seconds using program calls - so it's doing something I don't understand in the background)You work out on YOUR system what you want to do and then duplicate it with the TCP/IP calls. No direct programming required.Don't worry about how it does things - do you care that MP starts up things called graphs when you watch TV? Or that the same player (g_Player) is used for Radio? Probably not.This solves a problem that ISN'T addressed.IT is not possible to ask MP to start up a specific TV channel without a lot of clever programming (and as mentioned above not always even then)It may not be the best solution, although until MP has this functionality built-in I can't see anything that does what this does.Heck, install it if you want to, try it and it it falls over - >then< complain.All I can say is that this does something that ISN'T 'out there', that means I can now turn a £200 netbook in to a £20 clock radio <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />.I'd issue a challenge to duplicate this capability but that sounds too confrontational - I'm not trying to be 'in your face', honest.SO, Can you do/Do you know of anything that does what this does?No, thought not.Oh, just about to update it because the TV groups now work OK, even although it is using a 5 second delay rather than knowing that the [Channel] table has updated.Mute etc. all work now too!</blockquote>

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