Hello all,
I am trying to build a software application to display movie posters on a monitor outside the theater, as well as showing the specific poster and progress details for the movie that is currently playing on my Strato (if any). There are similar products available for Kodi/Plex/etc. but I don't use any of those systems, so I am trying to write my own application for this (I am an experienced software developer).
My goal is to have an application that will download a list of movies currently on a K Player and then go find movie posters on the Internet for the loaded movies and cycle through them. I am struggling to get the list of available movies off the player.
I checked the published documentation about the telnet-based control protocol and I do not see a way to get the information I want via that protocol. However, I feel it must be possible to get the list somehow, as the official K apps on my phone talk to my player and get the list of installed movies, as does Alan Chow's Control4 driver. I suspect both tools are doing it all over an HTTP API to the player.
Before I go down the rabbit hole of sniffing the network traffic and trying to reverse engineer it, does anyone know if that documentation is available anywhere?
I am trying to build a software application to display movie posters on a monitor outside the theater, as well as showing the specific poster and progress details for the movie that is currently playing on my Strato (if any). There are similar products available for Kodi/Plex/etc. but I don't use any of those systems, so I am trying to write my own application for this (I am an experienced software developer).
My goal is to have an application that will download a list of movies currently on a K Player and then go find movie posters on the Internet for the loaded movies and cycle through them. I am struggling to get the list of available movies off the player.
I checked the published documentation about the telnet-based control protocol and I do not see a way to get the information I want via that protocol. However, I feel it must be possible to get the list somehow, as the official K apps on my phone talk to my player and get the list of installed movies, as does Alan Chow's Control4 driver. I suspect both tools are doing it all over an HTTP API to the player.
Before I go down the rabbit hole of sniffing the network traffic and trying to reverse engineer it, does anyone know if that documentation is available anywhere?