Lancelot - PVR/Home Automation Files

LANCELOT CONTROL CENTER version 0.03




Requirements:
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First of all you need a tv-tuner card with a WDM driver.
Then you need DirectX9 installed.
A reasonable graphics card (I think a TNT2 or alike will do)

Note: if you have more than one capture card installed, the tuner card may not be chosen, because as for now the first capture card encounted is chosen, whether or not that is the tuner card.






How to intall Lancelot Control Center:
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1) Unzip the files to a directory of your choice, called %LANCELOTDIR% from now on (e.g. c:\lancelot)

1) Start a command prompt: Click Start/Run and type "cmd"

2) Change the working directory to %LANCELOTDIR% (cd %LANCELOTDIR%).

3) Install the service by running the following command from %LANCELOTDIR%: InstallLS %LANCELOTDIR%\Lancelot.exe
The first argument is the FULL path to the lancelot executable (lancelot.exe).

4) Make sure the Tuner.dll is located in the same folder as lancelot.exe

5) Start the registry edtor: Click Start/Run and type "regedit". Create a new "expandable string value" with the name "Lancelot" under the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cpls
The value of the key should be the full path to the LSCP.cpl file.
Note: You may need to restart in order to get the control panel applet to show in the control panel.







How to operate Lancelot Control Center:
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Presently the functionality of both the client and the Control Center is very limited.

To start the service:

1) Right click "My Computer" and choose "manage".
2) Expand the "Services and Applications" group and click on "Services".
3) Locate the service called "Lancelot Control Center" and right click on it. Choose "start" in the pop-up menu. Note: the window is no longer automatically opened when the service starts.
4) To stop Lancelot, right click on "Lancelot Control Center" and choose "stop" in the pop-up menu.



The settings of the Lancelot Control Center are managed from the control panel applet located in the Control Panel.
1) Make sure the Lancelot Control Center is running.
2) Open the Control Panel and double click on the "fancy" Lancelot icon.
3) Scan for channels by clicking on the "scan" button.
4) Select a your country and the input type "cable" or "antenna" and click "ok".
5) Lancelot starts scanning for channels and after a while the "channel manager page" displays a number of available channels.







To run the command line client:
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1) Start a command prompt: Click Start/Run and type "cmd"
2) Change the working directory to %LANCELOTDIR% (cd %LANCELOTDIR%)
3) Type "CommTestClient.exe"

The client writes:
"Client: connecting...Input line of text, followed by carriage return:
done",
and is now ready to receive commands which it will forward to the Control Center.

The following commands are available:
chan1			- Selects channel preset 1
chan2			- Selects channel preset 2
chan3			- Selects channel preset 3
chan4			- Selects channel preset 4
chan5			- Selects channel preset 5
show			- Shows the main window
hide			- Hides the main window
tuner			- Turns the tuner on
fson			- Full screen mode
fsoff			- Windowed mode
exit			- Exits the client

Note: when in full screen mode pressing the ESC key will also revert to windowed mode.







How to uninstall Lancelot Control Center:
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1) Start a command prompt: Click Start/Run and type "cmd"

2) Change the working directory to %LANCELOTDIR% (cd %LANCELOTDIR%)

3) Uninstall the service by running the following command from %LANCELOTDIR%: InstallLS -u

4) Start the registry edtor: Click Start/Run and type "regedit". Delete the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cpls\Lancelot

5) Delete %LANCELOTDIR%