From 955d5eb012227fa6fa70f784d967e831a55e5c1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:35:52 +0100 Subject: Adapted the 'sky' plugin to use the actual channel IDs, and to fetch EPG data from www.bleb.org --- PLUGINS/src/sky/README | 29 ++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'PLUGINS/src/sky/README') diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/sky/README b/PLUGINS/src/sky/README index bd089ccf..185a98b0 100644 --- a/PLUGINS/src/sky/README +++ b/PLUGINS/src/sky/README @@ -28,23 +28,18 @@ control the Digibox. In order to access the Sky channels VDR needs to know the channel number under which each channel is stored in the Sky Digibox. These numbers are -used as 'frequency' parameters in the channels.conf definitions of the Sky -channels (see the file 'channels.conf.sky'). Since these numbers are always -less than 1000, they can be easily distinguished from normal satellite -transponder frequencies. The VPID is 160 and the APID is 80 for all Sky -channels. These are just fake PIDs, since the Kfir card always uses these -fixed PIDs. The 'Ca' parameter of the Sky channels is set to 301, which -is defined as "Videoguard, Sky Digital" in VDR's 'ca.conf' file. Again, please -note that VDR doesn't do any decrypting here, this is just to mark these -channels as "conditionally accessible" and have a way of setting the CICAM -value for the Kfir device in VDR's Setup menu. - -The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.ananova.com. +stored in the file 'channels.conf.sky', together with the channel IDs as +derived from the actual channel data and the names under which the EPG +data for each channel can be found (see below). Copy this file to your +plugins config directory, in a subdirectory named 'sky', as in + +/video/plugins/sky/channels.conf.sky + +The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.bleb.org. The Perl script getskyepg.pl extracts the EPG data from these pages -and sends it to VDR via an SVDRP connection. The channel numbers Sky -uses to generate the EPG pages are stored as the 'sid' parameter in -the channels.conf definitions of the Sky channels. You can keep your -EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl into your -/etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options. +and sends it to VDR via an SVDRP connection. The channel names as +used on the bleb.org pages are defined in the channels.conf.sky file. +You can keep your EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl +into your /etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options. The getskyepg.pl script requires the programs /usr/bin/wget and /usr/bin/logger to be installed on your system. -- cgit v1.2.3