NAME

    TiVo::Calypso - a Perl interface to the TiVo Calypso protocol

SYNOPSIS

    use TiVo::Calypso;

    my $server = TiVo::Calypso::Server->new(
        SERVER_NAME => "My Server",
        CACHE_DIR   => "/tmp"
    );

    my $music_service = TiVo::Calypso::Container::Music->new(
        TITLE     => "Music Library",
        PATH      => "/mp3",      
        SERVICE   => "/Music",
        SCROBBLER =>
        {
            POSTURL  => 'http://post.audioscrobbler.com',
            USERNAME => 'scrobbleuser',
            PASSWORD => 'p4ssw0rd'
        }
    );

    $server->add_service( $music_service );

DESCRIPTION

    TiVo::Calypso provides a Perl interface to the TiVo Calypso
    protocol, allowing development of custom server and CGI
    applications to act as a media source for the TiVo consumer
    platform.

    TiVo::Calypso depends on the following third-party modules for
    full functionality:

        Storable        ( enables caching )
        Digest::MD5     ( enables caching )
        IO::File        ( enables general file serving )
        MP3::Info       ( enables MP3 serving )
        LWP::Simple     ( AudioScrobbling )

    TiVo::Calypso defines the following classes:

        TiVo::Calypso::Server
        TiVo::Calypso::Request
        TiVo::Calypso::Container
            TiVo::Calypso::Container::Server
            TiVo::Calypso::Container::Music
        TiVo::Calypso::Item
            TiVo::Calypso::Item::MP3

PUBLIC METHODS

    TiVo::Calypso::Server->new()
        Expects a hash of arguments to define the new Calypso
        server:

        SERVER_NAME defines the string by which the server
        identifies itself. It is purely cosmetic. (optional)

        CACHE_DIR defines the directory used to cache data
        objects and scaled images. This directory must be
        readable and writable in order for caching to take
        place.

    TiVo::Calypso::Server->add_service()
        Expects to be passed a TiVo::Container object which
        will be added to the master list of services
        available on this server.

    TiVo::Calypso::Server->request( $script_name, $path_info,
            $query_string )
        Expects to be passed three scalars (or a single
        predefined TiVo::Calypso::Request object) of the same
        format as the environment variables SCRIPT_NAME,
        PATH_INFO, and QUERY_STRING defined by a standard web
        server.

        TiVo::Calypso::Server->request returns a list with 2
        elements.  The first element is a reference to a hash
        which contains the recommended HTTP headers to be returned
        to the client. The second element is a reference to either
        a scalar or an IO::File object, depending on the type of
        data requested.

        TiVo::Calypso::Server->request returns undef on a bad
        request.

    TiVo::Calypso::Container::Music->new()
        Expects a hash of arguments to define a service
        (directory of content):

        PATH defines the directory on the local filesystem
        to search for content to be made available via
        this service.

        SERVICE is the virtual directory name which will be
        used to describe this service in URLs.

        TITLE is the descriptive label which will be used to
        describe this service in messages from the server.
        (optional)

MODIFICATIONS

    TiVo::Calypso is a branch of TiVo.pm, originally released by
    TiVo Inc.  TiVo.pm has been declared 'dead' by TiVo Inc. and
    released into the public domain.

    Additional modifications since the initial 1.0 release from
    TiVo include the following:

        Aggressive caching has been fixed.

        A smarter sort method has been implemented.

        AudioScrobbler (last.fm) support has been added.  The
        synopsis should be enough to explain how to use it.

        TiVo::Calypso::Container::Music now defaults to an
        alphabetical list for browsing.  200+ artists made
        browsing terribly slow/painful.

AUTHOR

    TiVo.pm was initially written by TiVo, Inc.

    Modifications and maintenance of TiVo::Calypso is now done
    by Scott Schneider <sschneid@gmail.com>.

    Please e-mail with problems, bug fixes, comments and complaints.