Dish and IP control

[fiasco]

Does Dish have IP control functionality similar to DirecTV yet?

[mdavej]

They have an iPad/iPhone app that gives you realtime transport controls plus arrow keys and OK. You can view your DVR playlist and the guide and pick a channel to watch live and it switches to the selected channel, or you can playback a recording. Response is pretty much instantaneous. Works very well, IMO.

If you have the sling-enabled DVR (922), I think you can also stream live tv and your recordings. I don't have one of those, so I can't say if or how well that works.

I don't really know what DirecTV has, so I can't say if it's similar or not. Last time I checked, D*'s IP control was still in the testing phase, and one guy had built his own interface. Dish's is fully functional and available to everyone now for free.

I don't know if the API is available to other developers or not.

I'd be glad to fire up the old iPad later and give you more details.

[fiasco]

Yeah, I'm pretty much just looking for remote transport button IP control through an iPad app. If there is a published protocol I'd love to see it.

[Ragin Cajun]

Anyone else find an API to do this? I have the Dish app for iPad and Android (both work great), but I am looking for some sort of IP control to possibly work with my HDPVR. DVBLink can control DirecTV via IP (as the OP stated)