Mailing List Archive: I finally have a DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions.

I finally have a DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions.

Nov 21, 2002, 10:39 PM

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I research most of them in the archive but I don't seam to find answers.

First of all: Thanks to the Myth developersm this is a wonderful piece of
software, one of those that make Linux worth it.

Second: Thanks to Tarek for all your help with the DirecTv stuff.

Third...the questions:

-MythTVs full screen does not take the bars away. Is there a setting that I
might be missing? I'm running GNome but I tried KDE and sliding the bars I
discover that the video is full screen but is running under the bars.

-I cannot get the "m" to work over channel 255. So if I try to go above 255
using the grid it does not work. Any thougts?

-I have broadcast channels, my first 15 (I use the tv tunner for this)and
then my DTV channels (Composite 1) When I go from one group to the other it
does not work directly, I have to change the source (using c) and then I can
move one. Would not be possible in future versions for Myth to pick the
appropriate source base on the channel?
-And my last comment/suggestion/question: in the same way that now we have
the external channel in the settings, from where it is possible to call a
script to change channels of an external receiver, is it possible to define
script calls base on other "events"? Like for example when changing source,
etc. I would like to turn my direct tv box on and off, because my tunner
reception us much better when it is off.

Again: Thanks! You are the bests!

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Re: I finally have a DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions. [ In reply to ]

erik_nospam.arendse at bigfoot

Nov 22, 2002, 3:31 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1120 views)

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At 22-11-02 06:39, you wrote:
>-I cannot get the "m" to work over channel 255. So if I try to go above
>255 using the grid it does not work. Any thougts?

I just generated a fake xmlv input with 300 channels, browsing the channels
with mythepg works OK. The gridstuff uses an int for the rownumber
internally, no problems there.

I suspect your xmltv grabber rolls over on channel 256.

Erik

Re: I finally have a DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions. [ In reply to ]

tarek at tarek

Nov 22, 2002, 10:23 PM

Post #3 of 4 (1167 views)

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What exactly do you mean by the bars thing? If you mean the menu bars, one
way you can change that is by setting the bars to auto-hide after X
seconds.. I do this, and it works relatively well..

As for the second issue that you raised, you can set it such that there is
a small if statement in your program that does your channel changing.. and
basically the if statement would run a little like this:

if the channel is set to <15 (or whatever your CATV channel limit is), then
also send out the command to turn off the TV.. and you could also have it
say that if the channel is set to >15 (or >100 to allow room for
expansion), turn on the receiver.. The following should happen:

1) START: You are set to channel 550 watching a cool indie flick.
2) You change the tuner to TV.
3) You hit up/down to get to the next "available" channel on your cable tv
tuner..
4) Your program executes; hits the "if" statement, and turns off the
receiver.. maybe writes a little file that keeps track of receiver status
so that it doesn't toggle power everytime you change channels in cable..
5) You change back to satellite.. Your other if statement is true, and the
receiver is turned back on..
6) END

I know this is a hack easily resolved by myth sending out other commands,
but still, it will work and the program may be fun to make : )

tarek : )

>-MythTVs full screen does not take the bars away. Is there a setting that
>I might be missing? I'm running GNome but I tried KDE and sliding the bars
>I discover that the video is full screen but is running under the bars.
>
>-And my last comment/suggestion/question: in the same way that now we have
>the external channel in the settings, from where it is possible to call a
>script to change channels of an external receiver, is it possible to
>define script calls base on other "events"? Like for example when changing
>source, etc. I would like to turn my direct tv box on and off, because my
>tunner reception us much better when it is off.

Re: I finally have DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions. [ In reply to ]

bertusmedia at hotmail

Nov 22, 2002, 11:29 PM

Post #4 of 4 (1166 views)

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> What exactly do you mean by the bars thing? If you mean the menu bars, one
> way you can change that is by setting the bars to auto-hide after X
> seconds.. I do this, and it works relatively well..

Do you use Gnome, or KDE ?(I don't see that Gnome 2 has autohide for the
main bar.) I haven't tried kde and autohide. I might.

> As for the second issue that you raised, you can set it such that there is
> a small if statement in your program that does your channel changing.. and
> basically the if statement would run a little like this:
>
> if the channel is set to <15 (or whatever your CATV channel limit is),
then
> also send out the command to turn off the TV.. and you could also have it
> say that if the channel is set to >15 (or >100 to allow room for
> expansion), turn on the receiver.. The following should happen:
>

I tried your idea but it only works with Composite. When I'm using the tuner
it doesn't seam to be calling the perl script.

Thanks though at least I can schedule a recording now in the Tunner and then
in the composite, leave the sat box off, record the first show right and
when it goes to the second it turns the sat box on, recording the second
also. But I'm afraid that for now I will not be able to do the second.

> I know this is a hack easily resolved by myth sending out other commands,
> but still, it will work and the program may be fun to make : )

As for the extra command I think It would be a bit of extra flexibility. Not
only for us but for the Lirc people. It would allow you to turn on/off
multiple boxes.

Again: Thanks! You are the man!