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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1253719" data-attributes="member: 83973">It's the 'TV' client plug-in you should be looking at, not the 'server' part (which may be local or remote). But the TV plug-in source code is part of the 'TvEngine3' project - see <a href="https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1/tree/master/TvEngine3/TVLibrary/TvPlugin" target="_blank">MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1</a>The client and server communicate via the OS network stack, so it should work the same for all configurations (in theory).Remember that the TV plug-in is an optional feature of the MP client - it might not be installed or enabled, so whatever you implement must behave correctly (e.g. not crash or throw error exceptions) when the TV plug-in is not present, TV Server is not installed, not running, or not available on the network.I think if you work out how the TV plug-in updates the 'red dot' indicator information in the skin engine (when it's the foreground activity in the GUI), that will give you a big clue how to extend that to the other players, My *guess* is that it has a periodic task running from a thread which queries TV Server and/or the TV database for the recording status.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1253719, member: 83973"] It's the 'TV' client plug-in you should be looking at, not the 'server' part (which may be local or remote). But the TV plug-in source code is part of the 'TvEngine3' project - see [URL='https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1/tree/master/TvEngine3/TVLibrary/TvPlugin']MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1[/URL] The client and server communicate via the OS network stack, so it should work the same for all configurations (in theory). Remember that the TV plug-in is an optional feature of the MP client - it might not be installed or enabled, so whatever you implement must behave correctly (e.g. not crash or throw error exceptions) when the TV plug-in is not present, TV Server is not installed, not running, or not available on the network. I think if you work out how the TV plug-in updates the 'red dot' indicator information in the skin engine (when it's the foreground activity in the GUI), that will give you a big clue how to extend that to the other players, My *[B]guess* [/B]is that it has a periodic task running from a thread which queries TV Server and/or the TV database for the recording status. [/QUOTE]

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