API: get curent channel number

[bradut]

Would it be possible to implement an endpoint to get the current channel number from a given SlingBox?
This would help users know at a first glance what channel are they watching at by seeing its number in the remote. (Similar to the remote in SP1.5).

Also, @GerryDazoo, could you please implement the API you added in v4.0 as REST API endpoints to get the info via javascript?

I've seen in your comment regarding the v.4.0 release that

GerryDazoo
on Feb 16
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md; It's not a web address it's just a TCP packet. You send SENDIRKEYCODES=-1 directly to the server ip and port. (No / ), You can do it from a linux command line with this little snippet
echo -n "SENDIRKEYCODES=-1" | nc 192.168.117.122 65432
not sure what the windows equivalent would be.
So simply, open a TCP socket to ip:port, send SENDIRKEYCODES=-1, close socket.

You can also do it with a http POST request (not GET).
curl -X POST http://ip:port/Remote/MainHD -d Restart=-1