Tvheadend

Part of that can be done in TVH. Using 'autorecs' you can set timers based on a regexp of the event title, and can further filter by channel, time-of-day and so on.

For more customised control you can use the HTTP API to create your own front-end. See https://github.com/dave-p/TVH-API-docs/wiki.

IMO it's a shame TVH doesn't use plugins like VDR.

The 'autorecs' are well known. This works similarly as in the VDR. But I don't want to record everything that is found with some created search timers.

So I have to deal with the API after all. Unfortunately the php scripts don't work for me somehow. I tested the simple php example from https://github.com/dave-p/TVH-API-docs/wiki/examples. Unfortunately the script can't query the recording timers. The command 'file_get_contents' answers with the HTTP code "401 Unauthorized". I have entered the correct user and password of course. But if I call the url given in the script with wget or in the browser, the JSON code is displayed.

I have installed TVH under Debian stable. The webserver is nginx. Maybe someone has a tip what I am doing wrong?

Thanks, Ronny.

Is your TVHeadend server set to use either "Plain (insecure)" or "Both plain and digest" authentication? PHP can't directly use digest authentication so has to be able to fall back to Plain.

Thank you, that was the problem.

Ronny