Right..
Sorry i posted an intro a while ago but didnt want to mention what i'd been up to, until i had fully completed more testing....
So i was frushtrated with the fact you couldnt reliably get ondemand on enigma2, i'd tested the kodi addons but wanted something more... user friendly for the wife.
I did some reading and saw the github project "get_iplayer" which had the ability to get BBC Iplayer stream URL's. So i set about writing something for enigma2 to use this. Initially i tried to get the box itself to run get_iplayer and use a simple python web server to forward requests to the URL provided by get_iplayer. In thoery this works very well however.. one perl module required for get_iplayer would not build for MIPS. After a couple of days of compiling from source again and again i gave it. I decided we needed a server to do the heavy lifting and just provide a bouquet to boxes.
The end result is this..
this is installed one a server such as ubuntu, and starts a simple python web server. it uses an internal nosql database to store all EPG, title and URL's
the indexing of, is run by a cron on the server every hour. You can then hit up another URL to ask the server to give you it's most recent bouquet file.
i've got this running on OpenATV but the server does the main bulk of the work. I have a server running but need to sort out something cost effective for me to run something long term. If people want to use this, i can look at a public one, otherwise i will keep within my local area network.
This is an example of a bouquet generated by the script.
https://gist.github.com/SEAL-team-ricks/d647d29bf1834e7ee7f26ba57983d7e8
You can download that and use as a working bouquet. Bear in mind this is static, ones generated by the server are dynamic and pick up new programs.
This is the script you want to run on your box, to download the latest bouquets
I have a server currently running at 185.30.212.145 but it's not production, so i cant ensure its up and useable, but by all means, grab a bouquet using the script and test it.
Here is a quick video of it working...
Going to http://185.30.212.145/iplayer/…,cbeebies,alba,parliament
will show you the most recent bouquet. Ondemand.sh merely downloads this, adds entry to your bouquet list and refreshes list.
What i would still like to do...
- Create some sort of custom EPG feed (the server grabs epg but doesnt use it yet)
- Have the server download all thumbnails and zip them, allow the boxes to download these to use for picons
- Look into what other services could be added, the script is moduler so i can add additonal ondemand services
