Re: [Xmltv-devel] Sky channels and XMLTV

[David G. <da...@dg...>]

Simon Kenyon wrote:
> David Greaves wrote:
>> He also wrote a script to iterate through all the sky channels (by sending an IR
>> 'up') and note down what each channel number was, and the corresponding Channel
>> Name.
>> This would be very useful to deal with Sky's EPG changes.
> indeed that would be useful
> --
> simon

I've been working on this which pulls useful data from a sky box.
It doesn't set the serial port attributes yet (57600, 8N1)

Connect to the $listen_port and send a string, eg : "Current-Channel-Number\n"
The response will be:
  Current-Channel-Number:1229528943:103
This tells you that it is on channel 103 and the last update was
 1229528943 seconds since the epoch.


$ echo "Status" | nc elm  1235
Now:1229535189
Entering-Channel:1229534379:6--
Current-Channel-Number:1229535184:136
Current-Programme-Name:1229535184:Friends
Current-Time:1229535184: 5.33pm Wed 17 Dec
Current-Programme-Start-Time:1229535184:5.30pm
Last-Update:1229535184:1229535184
Current-Channel-Name:1229535184:E4
Current-Programme-Description:1229535184:The One with Rachel's Crush: Rachel
schemes to get a handsome client to ask her on a date, while Chandler's jealousy
causes problems with his girlfriend.

(I'm also  looking at using this to correct/alert if the box gets 'stuck' or if
it changes channels to 999 as sometimes happens)

David


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