Neil Bird wrote:
Around about 09/08/05 02:29, Craig Tinson typed ...
I use redeye serial too.. but with a *very* simple one line bash
script.. would be interested in what you've done with redeye.c and
the script too..
Okey-doke. I make no pretention that I'm the original
author/modifier! The 'digibox.c' [née red_eye.c] and its Makefile I
purloined from somewhere and then fine-tuned to speed it up
(near-instant channel changes now).
The skychannel bash script (which does the deed from Myth & uses
digibox) is pretty much my own, but with some file-locking thrown in.
I did purloin the file locking originally, but I think I completely
re-wrote the mechanism after a while.
usage: skychannel <channum> [100 <= channum <= 999]
Copes with turning on the digibox if its off, and also (as it's once
happened to me while I was hammering another remote at the exact same
time the script ran) tries turning it on a second time in case the
first power-on got missed.
Also blats the zap-banner upon channel change (as Myth provides one).
[don't forget Sky now has a setup option to timeout the little red
dot interactive logo things]
Also hangs about for a little over 4 hours and turns the box off
(unless called again in the meantime) to 'reduce' power and ensure the
box gets resets to cope with S/W updates, etc. It's a timeout as I
couldn't easily tell when progs. finished and deserved a power-off. 4
hours seemed enough (if you think you'll record individual progs.
longer that that, change the timeout).
thanks Neil
it's a hell of a lot faster than what I've been using so far - and with
it doing things a couple of times it looks like it will be a lot more
reliable too :)
thanks for this.. will try it out for a couple of days and report
nice work :)
Cheers
Craig
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