And after some tweaks, it looks *far* better.

Feeling pretty good about this. I tuned Channels to a random live TV station and then opened Callsheet.

Only currently supporting @getchannels.

I plan/hope to include Plex support as well, but their API is… way WAY more involved. 😢 And I think I may need an entitlement from Apple to do it, so I'm at their whims as well. 😭

Regardless, feeling pretty good about the Channels integration so far. 😎 Beta testers, expect something in a few days.

Generally, when you tap one of these detected Now Playing items, Callsheet will simply do a search for the title.

However, in some cases, @getchannels can provide me more information, and this happens:

Many thanks to @maddox for tag-teaming on this. Still more work to do, but we're getting there. 🙌🏻

Progress is being made, but I had to pull in my first third-party dependency to get this to work. 😭

(THIS IS DEVELOPER UI I know it sucks that's not the point you don't have to tell me I still 💙 you though)

Anyway, this has been a fuckin' SLOG, but I'm pleased and relieved to start to see it working.

A few things here:

• This won't work unless I request and receive a multicast entitlement from Apple; I will be asking tomorrow.
• The Plex APIs are… shall we say… creaky… so I'm not sure how well this will work in the wild
• This would not be possible without “A” and "H". I'm happy to tag them but they're both asleep and I don't want to risk it just in case they're not comfortable. Anyway, when I say "would not be possible", that's not me being cute. It literally wouldn't have happened.

@chrispoole don’t even get me fuckin started

Truth be told the XML bothers me less than the roll-your-own bonjour