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I think you're suggesting we use a MythTV front-end on XBMC to access a MythTV "shim" on the MP server. For me, it seems like way too much innovation! I really haven't done much coding on this MP/XBMC project - I've simply taken other peoples' work and tweaked it a little. I'd imagine it'd be a fair bit of work (for me) to understand the MP API as well as the MythTV protocol, let alone write some code in C# (not my native language) to translate.

But if you have the skills, I imagine it's doable. Bear in mind that the MythTV scripts/plug-ins in XBMC might not talk MythTV completely - I think they do MySQL calls for program information, and use samba to "stream" the content. This means emulating MythTV on the MP server is not sufficient - you need to emulate a MythTV server, with exposed SMB and MySQL protocols.

Yes, perhaps a bug. If that's the case, I'd expect a MP front-end that remotely enables/disabled timeshift would also have the same problem. Are you able to test this?

<blockquote data-quote="jez" data-source="post: 355998" data-attributes="member: 84238">I think you're suggesting we use a MythTV front-end on XBMC to access a MythTV &quot;shim&quot; on the MP server.&nbsp; For me, it seems like way too much innovation!&nbsp; I really haven't done much coding on this MP/XBMC project - I've simply taken other peoples' work and tweaked it a little.&nbsp; I'd imagine it'd be a fair bit of work (for me) to understand the MP API as well as the MythTV protocol, let alone write some code in C# (not my native language) to translate.But if you have the skills, I imagine it's doable.&nbsp; Bear in mind that the MythTV scripts/plug-ins in XBMC might not talk MythTV completely - I think they do MySQL calls for program information, and use samba to &quot;stream&quot; the content.&nbsp; This means emulating MythTV on the MP server is not sufficient - you need to emulate a MythTV server, with exposed SMB and MySQL protocols.Yes, perhaps a bug.&nbsp; If that's the case, I'd expect a MP front-end that remotely enables/disabled timeshift would also have the same problem.&nbsp; Are you able to test this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jez, post: 355998, member: 84238"] I think you're suggesting we use a MythTV front-end on XBMC to access a MythTV "shim" on the MP server. For me, it seems like way too much innovation! I really haven't done much coding on this MP/XBMC project - I've simply taken other peoples' work and tweaked it a little. I'd imagine it'd be a fair bit of work (for me) to understand the MP API as well as the MythTV protocol, let alone write some code in C# (not my native language) to translate. But if you have the skills, I imagine it's doable. Bear in mind that the MythTV scripts/plug-ins in XBMC might not talk MythTV completely - I think they do MySQL calls for program information, and use samba to "stream" the content. This means emulating MythTV on the MP server is not sufficient - you need to emulate a MythTV server, with exposed SMB and MySQL protocols. Yes, perhaps a bug. If that's the case, I'd expect a MP front-end that remotely enables/disabled timeshift would also have the same problem. Are you able to test this? [/QUOTE]