Re: [icebox-devel] IceTV XML to TGD

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Quoting fr...@sp...:
> Quoting Peter Urbanec <ice...@ur...>:
> > A better approach to get a Toppy solution for the Mac would be to port
> > the existing ice_daemon to OSX. After that you just need to port puppy
> > or make use of Nathan's MacTF utility to transfer the flat file ICE EPG
> > files to the Toppy, where the ICE TAP will process the files.
>
> I must admit I hadn't considered this, and it should be fairly
> straightforward as you say. I'll download the source to ice_daemon tonight
> and have a look to see how much work it would be to port.

Answer: not much, but most actions are done by puppy. It should be trivial
to knock something up that can grab the appropriate files from IceTV for
manual uploading to the toppy - thanks!

> > The other option is to set up a cron job to run wget once a day to
> > retrieve the ICE EPG files and then send these to the Toppy. All the
> > required information is already present in the published source code.
>
> Where would the ICE EPG files be obtained from? Do IceTV provide those
> directly as well as the XML feed? (Aplogies if these are basic questions,
> I've gone over the IceTV website in some detail, but have not yet downloaded
> the sourceforge source code).

I've had a look at the source, and the answers are abundantly clear. I
suspect that it would be easier to customise the uploading support in MacTF
rather than port puppy directly, but I don't know much about the Mac USB
APIs.

Fred