Freesat TV Guide and Remote recording
Freesat has over 200 free TV and Radio channels, along with On Demand, Roll Back TV and interactive services.
Two projects to be integrated in order to get the latest TV listings from 180+ Freesat channels implementing an interactive TV Guide UI, see what’s on now and next and remote record any favourite shows.
JohnHenry Productions | PRCO already built the Freesat TV website when I joined the company and managed these two projects:
- TV Guide
- Remote record
I have managed the budget, resource allocation and the projects’ planning.
Key facts
Management of hundreds thousand pounds project.
Interactive TV Guide:
Sleek UI allowing to pan through 14 days of TV programming across hundreds of channels leveraging Ajax to load data on the fly as the user explored the TV guide. Server-side integrated with several third-party API to load and cache TV programming data.
- 180+ TV channels listed
- Dynamic dragging user interface
- View outcome by Postcode TV region
Remote Record:
Frontend and Backend integrated to various API to allow Freesat customers to start recording TV programs on their Freesat top box remotely using a web interface.
- Cloud integration
- Remote recording
Building technologies:
- Willow — robust and flexible multi-client CMS
- .NET framework
- AngularJS framework
Credits
