Global Helpers

[wayner]

A while back Slugger wrote a bunch or helpers that were not included in the API - you can find the code here.

These allow you to do things like reboot, power off or on extenders,

Is this available within SageTV currently and if not how would I add these helpers?

Would it be possible for these to be added to the core API?

[Narflex]

These types of things could just be added as new Global API calls within the core directly....although you'd need to add other classes for handling the extender control and such (which is in that package as well I assume). The only tricky part is that generally we don't invoke the SageTV API from within SageTV...but the calls in there that reference API calls you should be able to unwind and replicate (or just invoke the SageTV API...which is possible, but I tried to avoid doing that from within the code unless it's strictly necessary since it makes exceptions harder to analyze).