This is a webif question driven by the IR thread
HERE and a need to re-position the media library's pointer to the top of the media tree.
webif already knows if the Humax is playing something; if Web-if knows
where it is playing as well as
what, then I'm thinking that this potentially becomes something that can be used to solve the problem.
When my HDR box is streaming to its HD cousin as well perhaps playing something [different] locally then webif tells me that the two files are being played.
The only way that I've found for the HDR to play locally is if it is told to via the remote and now IR. Both have the same effect of moving the pointer in the library.
But if the HDR box is streaming then this is because a client has pulled, it since the HDR doesn't seem to have dlna-controller features.
So my webif question is, can the script that creates the display saying what is playing, also determine where it is playing?
A log or db entry keeping tabs of what and when the HDR is told to play something locally would be a quasi record of what the remote/IR interface last did. That information could then be used to help the pointer get back to the root.
It's not a full answer to the problem as it would need to deal with real world complexities such as new recordings, seriesfiler and the remote being used to move or copy things about, but it'd be a start.
