Hi again,
some updates after collecting experience with nxtvepg:
1.) I found that configuring nxtvepg as a user, and then writing an init.d
script to run it not with -rcdir (which should probably be accompanied by
-dbdir then), but simply through su - <user>.
On Friday, 29. December 2006 13:16, Duncan Webb wrote:
> > nxtvepg -rcfile path_to_configured_nxtvepgrc -dump xml > /tmp/TV.xml
> > to save the XML file.
>
> you may need to specify the dump format -dump xml5ltz
Yes, that's preferable (although it defaults to the last format used in the
GUI).
> and you can also give an output file -outfile.
I learned the hard way that this is a bad idea, since it refuses to overwrite
the existing /tmp/TV.xml.
> > 5) What's the best way to periodically push the XML into Freevo?
> > Obviously a cronjob.. now isn't the Wiki missing a freevo command for
> > re-reading /tmp/TV.xml?
>
> What I do here is to run freevo schedulefavorites, this updates the
> database. It may also be useful to run tv_sort on the data too. I use
> /etc/cron.hourly for this.
That's the way I do it now, too.
> With one tv tuner I'm not sure what the best method is, may use the
> VIDEO_POST_PLAY and VCR_POST_REC to tune channels back to the provider
> after playing and recording.
Again, I learned the hard way that this can bring trouble - my wife (who is no
computer professional at all) listened to my explanation of the current setup
and correctly guessed what turned out to be a real problem: VCR_POST_REC
calls ivtv_tune which changes the channel possibly after a subsequent
recording has already begun, and the wrong (EPG) channel is recorded.
(In the case of two successive recordings without gap.) :-(
Also, I did not find anything which matches .*_POST_PLAY - did you write the
above off the top of your head? Anyhow, VIDEO_POST_PLAY would not exactly be
good (again, a recording could be in progress), but I would need
TV_POST_WATCH; what I am really looking for is actually VIDEODEV_FREE_CMD or
sth. like that.
Finally, it seems that the statement "if another program switches [a channel],
nxtvepg will detect that and automatically go into passive mode" does not
hold at all for ivtv cards. :-(
The bottom line is: Throughout all my experiments, I had to explain a lot of
unwanted Kabel1 recordings to my love. ;-)
Ciao, / /
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/ / ANS
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