Neil Bird wrote:
Hmm. Well, I posted a semi-recent one a month or so ago along with
the redeye stuff I was using. Since then, I think I added one more
failsafe channel change ~10 s. after triggering as I managed to miss
one channel change once. I think it was because another IR (TV or
amp.) was in use at the time; the one danger of the IR blaster
approach. It's not let me down other that that since ~February.
My *current* version is no longer 'portable', alas. It has as
ivtvctl call in it now to determine whether the box needs turning on
(therefore ivtv/Hauppage-PVR specific) at the outset [that is easily
editible, though, and may actually have been in my posted version].
Also, I've changed the 'turn off in ~4 hours' thing into a
4-hours-long loop, polling Myth's status every 5 minutes. While this
could probably be done without vast difficulty in the script, it might
be a bit painful.
I've invested in a cheap LCD to monitor whether Myth's recording, a
sort of now'n'next display, HD temp. and free-space, show date+time,
plus even whether I've emails waiting.
I've hand-written a perl script to drive LCDd as the lcdproc stuf in
Myth 0.18.1 is broken and I don't want to risk SVN builds. I have a
'collate-status' script running on my main PC (email count) and my PVR
(now+next, HD status), putting these in a little table in mySQL on the
PVR once a minute. The LCDd script then polls this info.
My skychannel script gets this out from the d/b to see if the PVR's
active and whether the Sky box can thus be turned off. So skychannel
is now dependant upon my PVR 'collate-status' and a command-line i/f
to sql 'get-status'. It polls every 5 mins., for 4 hours trynig to
turn off the box, then gives up (now doesn't blindly turn it off after
4 hours).
If you're interested, the PVR status can be had from telnetting into
the nmythbackend on some port I've forgotten (search the list) and
doing 'GET /xml', although I had to play silly wotsits to stop this [I
use 'socat'] timing out and returning a null string when the PVR's busy.
Hi Neil
Thanks for the response - sounds like you've been busy!
Would still like to see your skychannel script / collate script - it
sounds like you have a very similar setup to me - UK+PVR250 etc.. if you
wouldn't mind sharing - I'll look through the list for the last month
and see if I can find that version too.
Out if interest where did you get a cheap LCD in the UK? not been able
to find one that I can easily integrate.. not sure if it's something I
actually want but would be interested (my silverstone case covers all
drives so probably isn't practical)
Thanks
Craig
P.S. and your script is *still* more reliable than anything else I've
found - and a couple of days ago I switched to SVN - and to be honest it
feels like channel changing is even quicker with SVN/your script.
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