xmlTVDaemon is a perl script that runs as a daemon on a linux server and periodically reads an xmltv file. Frontend applications can communicate via a simple protocol with this server. Currently only one frontend is available and that one is a python plugin script for xbmc. How to update the xmltv is up to you, look at xmltv.org for more info on that.
You can download the script and the plugin for xbmc here
screenshots:
changelog:
17-04-2004: added (simple for now) caching of channel info, so running from a remote server should be faster.. (CacheChannels = 1 in xboxsettings.txt)
Usage:
Run the xmlTVDaemon.pl script on your linux server like this:
./xmlTvDaemon.pl -D -s /somepath/settings.txt -o /somepath/xmlTV.log
-D for running as a daemon, -s indicates the settings file (read the settings.txt for more info) and -o for the log output. Use absolute paths.. (if you want to place files on some exotic place, don't forget to use sudo for the right permissions..). You can use -h to get a (small) help screen.
Copy the xbmcclient.py and xboxsettings.txt to your xmbc scripts folder and run it, use the xboxsettings.txt for setting the ip address and port where your server runs.
There is a 'record' button in the script (the xmlTVClient will run a command (mencoder..) at the apprioprate time then) but I haven't tested it yet because my 1 ghz server is currently to slow to record smoothly, so if someone wants to try it be my guest :). For recording you probably also need to edit the freq.txt file, which holds the channel name to freq conversion information, you can set the freq.txt with the -f parameter. I already created an example freq.txt with the info for the dutch casema network.
The script only works with the simple xmltv format (not the elaborate program descriptions), mostly because the dutch tv script I use crashes when it wants to parse those ;)
As a side note: I added a 'tvguide' button to my skin with <script>q:\scripts\xbmcclient.py</script> so I could conveniently use it in xbmc
The controls you can use in the python frontend are these:
I did this as a hobby project because I wanted a tvguide in xbmc, and I place it here because I think other people might find it usefull.
I don't give ANY guarantees on wether it will work or even totally destroy your xbox (but I don't think it will ;) ).
Questions and bugreports can be directed at , but please don't rely on me replying fast, because I do have other stuff to do in real life ;). The python script forums on xboxmediacenter.com are often also a good (and fast) source of information . You're free to add to this code, I release it under the GPL License, but if you add/fix something usefull please let me know so I can add it to this version.
enjoy,
Edwin Zuidema