Media Browser Integration

[lukemb3]

Hey guys,
I'm one of the lead developers of Media Browser 3 and would like to integrate this product into ours. Is there anywhere I can find api information? It appears most of the developer docs are geared towards next pvr plugin development, whereas I would be talking to it externally.

For a little background, about us, MB3 is a client-server architecture with streaming and encoding to multiple devices. We have the following clients in production:

- Media Browser Classic (wmc)
- Media Browser Theater (new htpc client, in WPF)
- Android
- iOS
- Roku
- Win Phone
- Win RT
- HTML5 Web client (built into server)
- Media Portal 1/2

Github: https://github.com/MediaBrowser
Promo site: http://www.mediabrowser3.com
Community: http://community.mediabrowser.tv

Thanks.

[sub]

What sort of integration are you hoping to achieve? This will help us point you in the right direction.

As a guess - if you're wanting to query the list of channels, get their channel icons, stream the channels, query list of recordings, stream a recording, you might be best to look at the source code to the NextPVR addon for XBMC, which does this type of thing. It uses an external http based API. See https://github.com/sub3/xbmc-pvr-addons/...extpvr/src

For example, calls like "http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method=channel.list" will get you an xml channel list.

[mvallevand]

NEWA Web Services provides pretty much all NextPVR functionality and it is documented through wsdl.


http://localhost:8866/public/services/De...rvice.asmx
http://localhost:8866/public/services/GuideService.asmx
http://localhost:8866/public/services/Ma...rvice.asmx
http://localhost:8866/public/services/Sc...rvice.asmx
http://localhost:8866/public/services/Se...rvice.asmx

It does help to know the API though.

Martin

[lukemb3]

sub - yes, that's exactly what i want to do. I guess I'll have to poke through both of those apps to piece it all together.

What I want to do is allow the user to set it up through our server so that all of our clients can then access it. Our server will provide a normalization layer so that we can support multiple back-ends later if we want to.

[lukemb3]

mvallevand - how can i view that externally? Or is the newa source available somewhere?

[sub]

mvallevand - how can i view that externally? Or is the newa source available somewhere?

The newa source is included with the NextPVR install. It can be found in the c:\users\public\npvr\web directory.

NEWA is web app that runs within NextPVR's web server. As well as providing web pages for users preferring to manage/schedule their recordings etc via a web browser, it also provides the web services Martin refers to above, which some applications use for interacting with NextPVR. Pointing your web browser at the URLs he mentioned will show you a description of those web services. NEWA makes use of internal API for communicating to the NextPVR's recording service (which is the same process as the web server)

[mvallevand]

When you install NextPVR NEWA is also installed. The source is also installed in the DataDirectory\web folder and it even shows example of how to use the NextPVR API from a non-plugin. NextPVR is moving to .NET 40 though, so you might have issues only being 3.5

Martin

[mvallevand]

Sub beats me to the punch yet again!

[lukemb3]

Thanks guys. I will install and look at that. We're recently built from the ground up with 4.5, so there won't be any issues there.

[mvallevand]

Also you can look at the x-newa plugin for xbmc. http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...-1.4.9.zip It exercises most of the web services in python.

Martin