SkyHD multiroom box and wifi?

[marjohn56]

Thanks for that info. Never played with DNLA at all so I will go off and learn... ( several years later... )

[seawright]

Craig Heffner's Miranda Python script is useful for exploring the Sky boxes DNLA capabilities but requires the following patch to be applied.
https://code.google.com/p/miranda-up...ar.gz&can=2&q=

 diff -u miranda/miranda.py bin/miranda_py.bak
--- miranda/miranda.py    2012-12-23 10:14:08.000000000 +0000
+++ bin/miranda_py.bak    2015-02-18 22:41:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
             #    1. This is a new host
             #    2. We've already seen this host, but the uniq hosts setting is disabled
             for hostID,hostInfo in self.ENUM_HOSTS.iteritems():
-                if hostInfo['name'] == host:
+                if hostInfo['name'] == host and hostInfo['xmlFile'] == xmlFile:
                     hostFound = True
                     if self.UNIQ:
                         return False
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@
     def getXML(self,url):
 
         headers = {
-                            'USER-AGENT':'uPNP/'+self.UPNP_VERSION,
+                            #'USER-AGENT':'uPNP/'+self.UPNP_VERSION,
+                'USER-AGENT':'SKY_skyplus',
                             'CONTENT-TYPE':'text/xml; charset="utf-8"'
                 }

[seawright]

I don't know of anywhere that the API is documented but I have written a windows version in C# for a full remote control: http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/gener...e-control.html that includes full source code so you could glean a lot from browsing that. Alternatively you might like to check out this programme on Source Forge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skyhdremote/

For the Linux users amongst you I have updated the skyhdremote gtk programme at sourceforge to accept keyboard/keypad input for channel selection.

[seawright]

First my apologies for resurrecting an old thread. I've recently completed an online course in Python and thought I'd attempt to convert this programme to Python.

import socket
HOST = '192.168.0.12'     # The Sky HD box IP address.
PORT = 49160
data = ''
print 'Type channel number or return to exit.' 
print '0 = Power on/Standby:    2 = Back up.' 
while 1:
    chan = raw_input('Sky> ')
    if (chan == ''):
        raise SystemExit()
    for char in chan:
        var = 2
        mess = bytearray([4,1,0,0,0,0,227,0])
        if (len(chan) == 1):
            mess[6] = 224
        mess[7] = ord(char[0]) - 48
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        s.connect((HOST, PORT))
        while (var != 0):
            data = s.recv(1024)
            if len(data) > 20:
                var = 0
            else:
                sdata = bytearray([data[0]])
                s.sendall(data) if (var == 2) else s.sendall(sdata)
                var = 1
        s.sendall(mess)
        mess[1] = 0
        s.sendall(mess)
        s.close()

Not fully featured as it was written to control a multiroom box hence no PVR controls though I have taken Marjohn56's comment onboard and included the ability to send the whole channel number at once (eg. try 0102 for radio two).

NB: This will not control Sky Q boxes.

There are a few undocumented functions such as ch+ and ch- but I'll leave finding them as an exercise for the reader. Capital A gives an interesting result, totally useless but none the less interesting.

It is written for Python version 2.7 but should work on version 3 with minor changes to the print and input lines. I've tried it on Windows 7 and Linux and if anyone has a Mac I'd be interested to know if it works on Os X.

The programmers amongst you may question the lack of error checking and comments but as Python is an interpreted language the worst that can happen is that you will be left back at the command prompt. Any way what do you expect for thirty lines of code?