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[MikeG]

Hi

My New Years resolution is to study and get deeper into media center and what you can do via the apis.

Step one - do my annual licence renewal so I am ready for mc25 goodness - Done !
Step two - find the (mcws?) api to request mc to tune and record a dvb-s station.

Failed on the first jump !! I don’t seem to be able to see any promising leads in the documentation on this. I can get the recording schedule and I can set it via the gui, but how can I manipulate and add to it from my own code/program.

I don’t want to play a tv station, just ask mc server to record it to a named file so it can be played back later.

Can anyone point me in the right direction - Sorry if it’s obvious and I have missed it.

Many thanks

Mike

[Yaobing]

There is no API / mcws function to start TV recording.  MC clients set recordings via database merge.  GUI -> local database -> server database.

[MikeG]

Thanks for the info. I think this would be a very popular api for people wanting to schedule via a web app (like panel). Could this be considered for a future version ?

[muzicman0]

So funny, I was just thinking the same thing earlier when I was at a friends house watching a NFL game and wanted to schedule a show to record.  I was thinking that there must be some sort of API that I could use to do my own app.  I would second this request, or at a minimum, have it built in to MC.

[imugli]

Some of us have been banging on for years about needing the ability to remotely schedule recordings e.g from a web interface (Panel, anyone?)...