Remote Control of your TV Server via HTTP

You are able to control the starting and stopping your TV Server recordings, and can query its status through a web URL:

http://your.tv.server.ip/admin/quickrecord.php

Parameters

To control recording operations, you will need to build a URL link which includes each of the following parameters.

op

The operation to execute. This can be one of the following values:

START | STOP | STATUS

username

The account of the user who will execute the operation. Example:

admin

password

An MD5 hash of the password associated with username. Example:

8409eb933e9f364ce2a7dbad59201f2f

folder

The name of the folder in which to store the new recording. Example:

Content Folder

title

The title of the recording. Example:

Sales Department Meeting

description

The description of the recording. Example:

Monday morning sales team meeting

All strings must be correctly URL encoded. There are functions available in almost all programming and scripting languages which facilitate this.

Example URLs

Starting and continuing a new recording

To start a recording in Content Folder entitled Sales Department Meeting with the description of Monday morning sales team meeting, get the following URL:

http://your.tv.server.ip/admin/quickrecord.php? op=START&username=admin&folder=Content%20Folder&title=Sales%20Department%20Meeting&description=Monday%20morning%20sales%20team%20meeting&password=8409eb933e9f364ce2a7dbad59201f2f

The result of a START operation will be one of two responses:

STARTED OK | ALREADY RUNNING

If you are using AV automation equipment, repeat the START request once every 30 seconds until the recording is stopped.

Querying a recording's status

To query the status of your recording, use the following:

http://your.tv.server.ip/admin/quickrecord.php? op=STATUS&username=admin&folder=Content%20Folder&title=Sales%20Department%20Meeting&description=Monday%20morning%20sales%20team%20meeting&password=8409eb933e9f364ce2a7dbad59201f2f

The result of a STATUS operation will be one of two responses:

RUNNING OK | NO RUNNING RECORDING

Stopping a recording

To stop this recording, use the following:

http://your.tv.server.ip/admin/quickrecord.php? op=STOP&username=admin&folder=Content%20Folder&title=Sales%20Department%20Meeting&description=Monday%20morning%20sales%20team%20meeting&password=8409eb933e9f364ce2a7dbad59201f2f

The result of a STOP operation will be one of two responses:

RUNNING OK | NO RUNNING RECORDING