From 27919ee969866b68fc95b327a047a9989e4b4153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:00:00 +0100 Subject: Version 0.99pre2 - Fixed setting the OSD size in the 'Confirm' interface call (thanks to Deti Fliegl). - Removed the 'read incomplete section...' error message in the EIT processor. - Fixed channel data for "DW TV" (thanks to Axel Gruber). - Added DPID to "PREMIERE MOVIE 1" in channels.conf.cable (thanks to Stephan Schreiber). - Prepared the OSD functions for multiple overlapping windows. - Removed the check to see whether the system time is running linearly. - Improved performance of SVDRP command entry. - Removed EPGBugfixLevel '3' - after more than a year Pro-7 finally managed to broadcast the correct timestamps for EPG events between 0:00 and 6:00! - Fixed failing watchdog timer if program hangs in OSD activities (thanks to Carsten Koch). - No longer requiring 'libncurses' if compiling without DEBUG_OSD=1 and REMOTE=KBD (thanks to Lauri Pesonen). - The "Recordings" menu now displays a hierarchical structure if there are subdirectories for the recordings. This can be controlled through the "RecordingDirs" parameter in the "Setup" menu. See "MANUAL/Replaying a Recording" for details. - Improved speed of setting the Help button texts. - Fixed handling file names that contain single quotes (') or dollar signs ($) in the call to the shutdown command (option '-s') and the recording command (option '-r'). - Improved error handling in the editing process; the resulting file will be deleted if an error occured. - A message is now prompted at the end of the editing process, indicating whether the process succeeded or failed. - Fixed setting the LastActivity timestamp after a shutdown prompt (thanks to Sergei Haller). - A message is now prompted if free disk space becomes low during recording. - The editing process now calls AssertFreeDiskSpace() to remove deleted recordings if the disk becomes full. - The "Main" menu now displays in its title the used disk space (in percent) and the estimated free disk space (in hh:mm), assuming a data rate of 30 MB per minute. - Activating the "Recordings" menu now displays "scanning recordings..." to give the user some feedback in case this takes longer. - Status messages are now displayed centered. - Removed the 'Tools' subdirectory from the VDR archive. All contributed tools can now be found at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/Tools. --- Tools/epg2timers/README | 151 ------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 151 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Tools/epg2timers/README (limited to 'Tools/epg2timers/README') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3