I'd missed that. OK, maybe it's not a good idea. It was just a
suggestion.
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I think it would be really great if you could do a search for a string
within the page - like the SS album/artist/song search.
As a possibly simpler alternative, jumping to the first letter (rather
than the current numerical jump) would be good, but the search is
preferable as it's not always
Thanks for the replies. I never use the slimserver web interface - if
I'm sat at my PC I'd just go to the BBC webpage.
One option could be a browse schedule menu time on AlienBBC which
would parse the schedule pages like this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/schedule/2006/07/05/day/
Just stick
A better starting point from a programming point of view would be this
URL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/radio4/schedule/2006/06/30/glance/index.shtml
It is the print page so it has fewer decorations.
However I'm not sure what you expect to happen next once you have a
program name and a time - that
The AlienBBC menu is mainly driven by the BBC website as Alien follows
links on the BBC website. There is very little stored information with
AlienBBC so what you see is always up to date but as a result cannot do
a search down or across levels that are not on the screen.
One way to do what you
I added the View station link to the web page so that you can jump to
the BBC web page that we parse, this gives you a bit more information.
The BBC site doesn't list things by broadcast time so that bit would be
hard (you can always use the Radio Times like my wife but that isn't
geeky enough
Pressing buttons on the remote does not go alphabetically in AlienBBC,
but it does go numerically.
So pressing 1,3,6 in quick succession gets to item 136 in a list (that
might have 260 items in total). A bit of guesswork and repeated tries
does lead to the relevant item tolerably fast.
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