Attempting to create a Mediaportal Plugin - API Help Needed

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bushbrother
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Attempting to create a Mediaportal Plugin - API Help Needed

Post by bushbrother »

Hi All,

I am attempting to create a MediaPortal (HTPC Software) plugin to display and control torrents running on a transmission-daemon. The Mediaportal plugin is in C# and I am very new to it so progress is a little slow. What I am trying to work out is is there an API or similar for Transmission? Is there any documentation on how to send commands to the daemon? Thanks in advance for any pointers!

:D
lazybones
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Re: Attempting to create a Mediaportal Plugin - API Help Nee

Post by lazybones »

You might as well just skip Transmission RPC.... Yes there is an API, dig through the wiki or maybe even look at the "Frontends" on the main www.transmissionbt site since some of them are open source.
bushbrother
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Post by bushbrother »

Yes I looked at the frontends, and there is transmission-remote-dotnet which will be useful, this appears to use Jayrock as the interface to transmission which is a JSON library in C#.

I cannot find any details of APIs in the Wiki, any pointers please? Thanks.
bushbrother
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Re: Attempting to create a Mediaportal Plugin - API Help Nee

Post by bushbrother »

Not sure who that comment was aimed at ... anyway, just as a follow up for anyone interested, I used JayRock to handle all the RPC stuff and did use the spec at the above address to work out what i needed to send in JSON.

Final plugin here:

http://code.google.com/p/mp-transmission/
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bushbrother wrote:Not sure who that comment was aimed at ...
Advertisement for the sites at the bottom, I've reported it.
bushbrother
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blacke4dawn wrote:
bushbrother wrote:Not sure who that comment was aimed at ...
Advertisement for the sites at the bottom, I've reported it.
Ha, didn't even notice that!
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only seen 3 posts like that so far on this forum (though I don't read the entire forum) so it seems to be a new way to try and get around any automated spam filtering.
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