Glad you got it up and running. Don't know about the first part but I have a button
that, when pushed turns everything off. This is my Sleep button. When ECS sees that
button, among other things, it turns the Boolean Sleep to True. The logic is that if
Sleep = False Then TVL Show set Speak. When I was tweaking this Event, I declared "WeatherCenter"
a favorite, as it shows up about every hour. I then left my wife alone with ECS speaking
"WeatherCenter" way to often. That is when I put the conditional in.

 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hutchins 
  To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading


  Mark, Don, Paul,

  Thanks to all your help I have TV-Guide / TV-Listings up and running great!!!!!!!!
  I had two things wrong first of all I didn't realize that my TZ-E file was overwritten
when I upgraded so I had to go back in and "start from scratch" adding "*"'s and changing
the channel #'s. Secondly, when I cut and pasted some of the TVL items into ecs.cfg
somehow some extra spaces got into the 'FILE : ' lines and so ECS was looking for "
  :  TVL.TXT" for example. So , a little editing repair work and now everything works
great!!

  Now for a question. I want to get the VCR to record my favorites! I understand the
selection of favs no problem. Now I need to get the 'IR stuff' working using my HV-PC
w/ Xantech dual emitters plugged into the back. Help file describes how to input the
IR signal data but I want to know if I can simply edit the existing VCR:REC ect items
instead of starting over. Also, I don't need the Announcement along w/ the Record (am
using the bedroom TV/VCR for this and the 'BOSS' will get very upset if the computer
starts announcing that it will 'Record Poirot in 60 seconds' at 2am!!!). Can this be
done?

  Thanks,

  Tom
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Don Stephens 
    To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
    Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:13 AM
    Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading


    Tom:

     And I thought I got up early. :-) 
    OK, here's TVL.BAT. It requires three arguments, Time Zone,Amount of Days forward,
and the last number channel override. In my case it looks like this.
    TVL.BAT TZ-P 8 1. This is reflected in the TVL.BAT Item in your ECS.CFG.
    If you run this manually....

    DEL ISPSTAT.DAT
    Deletes file ISPSTAT.DAT

    IF "%1"=="" GOTO ERR
    If there is no argument (TZ-P) the batch file jumps to ERR, else..

    rem Generate TVLDL.BAT to download listings starting at 12:00AM
    rem (%2 is the day-count - default is 8 days)
    TVL0 %1 %2

    TVL0 Runs with 1st and 2nd arguments, TZ-P and 8 or TVL0 TZ-P 8
    rem Download listings:

    CALL TVLDL
    Calls the batch file TVDL and then returns here...

    START /W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT
    This is some of Mark's magic stuff to deal with the state of the modem..

    IF NOT EXIST TVL.HTM GOTO ERR
    If the file TVL.HTM isn't found then jump to ERR...


    rem Convert HTML to text file and assign chan #s if applicable
    rem (%3 denotes channel# override):
    TVL1 TVL.HTM %1.CHN %3 TVLNEW.TXT

    This converts TVL.HTM to TVLNEW.TXT parsing the stuff in %1.CHN or in my
    case, TZ-P. At this point TVLNEW.TXT should exist...The 3rd argument tells the
    executable TVL1 if you want to override the channel numbers...

    rem Delete unwanted channels:
    FILTER @%1.CHN TVLNEW.TXT 0 29
    Throw out unwanted channels from %1.CHN or in my case TZ-P.CHN...

    rem Calculate length (minutes) of each show:
    TVL2 TVLNEW.TXT TVL.TMP
    Like Mark says in the comment...TVL.TMP is a temporary file storing the future
    TVLNEW.TXT

    COPY TVL.TMP TVLNEW.TXT
    DEL TVL.TMP
    Coping the TMP file to TXT file, and then deleting the TMP file

    rem Save original TVLNEW.TXT (for possible reference)
    COPY TVLNEW.TXT TVLNEW0.TXT

    creating a TVLNEW0.TXT, mirroring the TVLNEW.TXT file..
    And So on. You can copy TVL.BAT to another file and place pauses (PAUSE)
    between the commands of this new file and watch it execute. Just make sure you include
the three arguments TimeZone, Amount of Days, Switch for channel override (0 or 1) and
see what happens. I'm going to be home for part of the day, so drop me a note if you
have any questions.

    Don

----- Original Message -----

From: Tom Hutchins

To: ecs-list@netbloc.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:05 PM

Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading

Mark, Don, Paul,

 

Thanks to all your help I have TV-Guide / TV-Listings up and running great!!!!!!!!

I had two things wrong first of all I didn't realize that my TZ-E file was overwritten when I upgraded so I had to go back in and "start from scratch" adding "*"'s and changing the channel #'s. Secondly, when I cut and pasted some of the TVL items into ecs.cfg somehow some extra spaces got into the 'FILE : ' lines and so ECS was looking for "   :  TVL.TXT" for example. So , a little editing repair work and now everything works great!!

 

Now for a question. I want to get the VCR to record my favorites! I understand the selection of favs no problem. Now I need to get the 'IR stuff' working using my HV-PC w/ Xantech dual emitters plugged into the back. Help file describes how to input the IR signal data but I want to know if I can simply edit the existing VCR:REC ect items instead of starting over. Also, I don't need the Announcement along w/ the Record (am using the bedroom TV/VCR for this and the 'BOSS' will get very upset if the computer starts announcing that it will 'Record Poirot in 60 seconds' at 2am!!!). Can this be done?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

----- Original Message -----

From: Don Stephens

To: ecs-list@netbloc.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:13 AM

Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading

Tom:

 

 And I thought I got up early. :-)

OK, here's TVL.BAT. It requires three arguments, Time Zone,Amount of Days forward, and the last number channel override. In my case it looks like this.

TVL.BAT TZ-P 8 1. This is reflected in the TVL.BAT Item in your ECS.CFG.

If you run this manually....

 

DEL ISPSTAT.DAT

Deletes file ISPSTAT.DAT

 

IF "%1"=="" GOTO ERR

If there is no argument (TZ-P) the batch file jumps to ERR, else..

 

rem Generate TVLDL.BAT to download listings starting at 12:00AM
rem (%2 is the day-count - default is 8 days)
TVL0 %1 %2

 

TVL0 Runs with 1st and 2nd arguments, TZ-P and 8 or TVL0 TZ-P 8

rem Download listings:

CALL TVLDL

Calls the batch file TVDL and then returns here...

START /W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT

This is some of Mark's magic stuff to deal with the state of the modem..

IF NOT EXIST TVL.HTM GOTO ERR

If the file TVL.HTM isn't found then jump to ERR...

 

 

rem Convert HTML to text file and assign chan #s if applicable
rem (%3 denotes channel# override):
TVL1 TVL.HTM %1.CHN %3 TVLNEW.TXT

 

This converts TVL.HTM to TVLNEW.TXT parsing the stuff in %1.CHN or in my

case, TZ-P. At this point TVLNEW.TXT should exist...The 3rd argument tells the

executable TVL1 if you want to override the channel numbers...

 

rem Delete unwanted channels:
FILTER @%1.CHN TVLNEW.TXT 0 29

Throw out unwanted channels from %1.CHN or in my case TZ-P.CHN...

 

rem Calculate length (minutes) of each show:
TVL2 TVLNEW.TXT TVL.TMP

Like Mark says in the comment...TVL.TMP is a temporary file storing the future

TVLNEW.TXT

COPY TVL.TMP TVLNEW.TXT
DEL TVL.TMP

Coping the TMP file to TXT file, and then deleting the TMP file

 

rem Save original TVLNEW.TXT (for possible reference)
COPY TVLNEW.TXT TVLNEW0.TXT

 

creating a TVLNEW0.TXT, mirroring the TVLNEW.TXT file..

And So on. You can copy TVL.BAT to another file and place pauses (PAUSE)

between the commands of this new file and watch it execute. Just make sure you include the three arguments TimeZone, Amount of Days, Switch for channel override (0 or 1) and see what happens. I'm going to be home for part of the day, so drop me a note if you have any questions.

 

Don