Mailing List Archive: DirecTV PPV --> XML Script

DirecTV PPV --> XML Script

Nov 15, 2002, 1:19 AM

Post #1 of 2 (1566 views)

Hey guys!!

The Plan:
To somehow get DirecTV's PPVs into Myth's database

The Tools:
Thank you Rob K. for pointing us towards a page that tries to do DTV PPV
updates for the tivo. This page is:
http://www.geocities.com/paglierani/showlist.jpg

The solution:
A little script written in Perl to get the stuff from the above page and
turn it into XML.. This *is* basic and currently doesn't include
categorizations (comedy/drama/etc) or such, which can no doubt be added in
time.. The Perl Script can be found at:

http://tarek.2y.net/mythtv/ppv.pl

What's left:
I stopped at this point because I didn't wish to duplicate the work that
has already been done by Isaac.. T

Re: DirecTV PPV --> XML Script [ In reply to ]

bertusmedia at hotmail

Nov 16, 2002, 10:22 AM

Post #2 of 2 (1518 views)

Hey!

I followed all your attempts to get Directv working with Myth: nice job!

Once you indicated someboy to find the link posted to the perl script Josh
Wilmes wrote for controling the box through serial, and then get the chunks
that actually change the chanel as the chanelchanger script..I'm not a Perl
developer, so I was wondering if you could post your chanelchanger script.

That would facilitate things to many people with DTV (including me).

Thanks!

Roberto

Josh link: http://www.hitchhiker.org/dss

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