PCTV Broadway HD-S2 Client for Desktop

23. February 2015

The PCTV Broadway HD-S2 is currently my favorite network sat receiver. It is tightly integrated into many of our network clients.

As the PCTV Broadway HD-S2 provides a nice and clean REST Api, I decided to start writing a small desktop client to access the streams and recordings (My main focus is Mac OSX / Linux for now). Sure, you can use VLC for that or just use the web interface, but I wanted something more customizable .

The Broadway PHP Api is working nicely and I am tempted to integrate the same functionality into the desktop client :)

Basic functionality working so far:

Auto-discover Broadway on the network (which is more of a hack, but works nicely)
Check stream availability
Channel listing
Working on a channel preview grid
Select favorites
Watch live streams
EPG now and upcoming ….soon ;)

Cheers
Alex

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Alexander

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