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Re: [ECS] problem upgrading Mark Gilmore Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:24:43 -0500

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4.2.009 will support an "F" code (it will show up as a
favorite in the guide, but will NOT be announced).
This is available now in the beta.
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026


> Don Stephens wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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>      ----- 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
>

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