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diff --git a/Tools/epg2timers/README b/Tools/epg2timers/README deleted file mode 100644 index 53888b1..0000000 --- a/Tools/epg2timers/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,151 +0,0 @@ -Overview. -========= - -The 4 modules in this directory are designed to allow vdr timer -programming via the http://tvtv.de web EPG (Electronic Program Guide). - -Once you have these modules properly configured and installed, -you should be able to simply click on the things you want vdr -to record in the http://tvtv.de web EPG and be done with it. -Everything else can be handled automatically. - - - -Module description. -=================== - -The http://tvtv.de web EPG creates a so-called "merkliste" -("a list of items to remember") containing all the broadcasts -you selected. - -1. The perl script "get_merkliste.pl" transfers this "merkliste" - from the http://tvtv.de web site to a local file "merkliste.html". - -2. The C++ program "epg2timers" converts this HTML file into vdr's - timers.conf format. - -3. The perl script "loadvdr.pl" pumps these new timer entries - into a running vdr using telnet and the SVDRP protocol. - -4. The shell script "update_timers" implements the overall - control of the entire process. - It retrieves the latest merkliste from http://tvtv.de, - converts it to timers.conf format and sends the timer entries - to vdr. - - - -Configuration. -============== - -get_merkliste.pl requires configuration of the "files_to_fetch" -variable preset. -Log in to your http://tvtv.de account and click on the "Bookmark" -item in the "Setup" submenu of the "Mein Programm" side bar menu. -This will open a window with a URL in the location field that ends -with an ID value. Replace the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -in the "files_to_fetch" variable preset with your ID value. -If you are using an HTTP proxy, uncomment the line containing -the $ua->proxy call and put your proxy details in. - -epg2timers.cxx allows various items to be configured, but it -should work out of the box. See "tvtv.de channel names" below. - -update_timers must know where to find the get_merkliste.pl -perl script and the compiled epg2timers binary. Both must be -in a directory pointed to by the TOOLDIR variable. -update_timers also must know where to find vdr's current -channels.conf file. Put that into the CHANPATH. - -Depending on the price of your internet access, you may want to -run update_timers more or less frequently. It may also be a good -idea to run it at times where it is unlikely to interfere with -your current use of vdr. Configure a crontab entry according to -these personal preferences. Here is the entry I use: -1 2 * * * /home/cko/bin/update_timers -It runs update_timers only once a night at 02:01 a.m. - - -Installation. -============= -Create your TOOLDIR directory if it does not already exist. -Copy get_merkliste.pl and loadvdr.pl into it, compile epg2timers.cxx -with the command: - g++ epg2timers.cxx -o epg2timers -and move the epg2timers binary into the TOOLDIR directory. - -The get_merkliste.pl script requires certain packages to run. -Besides of course perl, install perl-libwww-perl (at least -that's the name on SuSE 7.2, it may have a different name in -your distribution). - -If you have problems with SVDRP and loadvdr.pl, you may want to -try out the update_timers.old script, which replaces the timers.conf -file directly and kills vdr (assuming that it will be restarted -by the runvdr script) to make vdr reload the timers.conf file. - - -tvtv.de channel names. -====================== -The file epg_channel_names contains the names of all channels -currently (as of September 9, 2001) supported by the tvtv.de -web EPG. The variable "channel_map" in epg2timers.cxx maps -these names into PNRs (aka Service IDs). I have initialized -this table with provider names converted from a d-box channel -scan of Astra 19.2E, so the PNRs should be correct for that -satellite, but most of the names propably aren't yet- I simply -had not enough time yet to go through epg_channel_names -and insert all its channel names at the proper places in the -channel map. Consider the map supplied an example. ;-) -If you fix any of the entries, please send me a patch. -For my own humble purposes, the table works well as it is. -Of course, your channels.conf must contain the matching -PNRs (last field in each line). - - -To Do. -====== -These are just ideas. They MAY get implemented. -If you want them to happen, contribute a patch. ;-) - -* Support vdr hierarchical directories (after vdr does) - by mapping the http://tvtv.de genre texts into - directory names. -* start_time_safety_margin for epg2timers. - - -Authors. -======== -Carsten Koch: epg2timers.cxx, update_timers, this README file. - -Axel Gruber and -Rolf Hakenes: get_merkliste.pl - -Peter Ahlert: loadvdr.pl - - -Credits. -======== -I am grateful (in chronological order) to - -* Klaus Schmidinger for his excellent vdr program and for - keeping an open mind in all directions. - -* Suse (my wife, not the Linux distributor ;-) for encouraging me to - write epg2timers in June 2000 and for her constant patience and support. - -* Andreas Steinhauser for periodically criticizing the epg2timers - "manual mode" until I came up with the idea to fully automatize it - and for contributing ideas. - -* Axel Gruber for reminding me half a year later, for pushing - the idea until it got implemented, for asking for new features - all the time and for contributing ideas. - -* Axel Gruber and Rolf Hakenes for contributing the get_merkliste.pl - perl script. - -* Peter Ahlert for contributing the loadvdr.pl perl script. - - -Carsten, September 2001. |