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Re: [ECS] problem upgrading Tom Hutchins Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:46:48 -0500

Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:46:48 -0500

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Mark S.

By editing the VCR:REC item I mean changing the 'ITEM' VCR:REC from IR SIGNAL to NUMBER
and using that to store the IR signal ID. I couldn't see any reason to have items set
up for IR-2B and then have to set up new ones for HV.
As for the announce I thought that if TVL was set up to record a favorite it would speak
a 'record warning' automatically, is that true?

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Sekelsky 
  To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:23 PM
  Subject: RE: [ECS] problem upgrading


  I am not sure what you mean by editing VCR:REC, but if you mean editing the item in
example.cfg the answer is no.  The HV unit needs to have your specific IR signals stored
within it.
   
  I know what you mean about midnight announcements.  When I first started playing with
the TVL events I had "Star Trek" announced like a gazillion times after midnight.  In
my case I have a "flag" set when we are in bed.  I simply added a IF (might be a BEGINIF)
statement to not make announcements if we were in bed.  Mark has this in example.cfg
as well (If Awake is Not True, or something like that).  If you don;t have a status
such as these you could easily incorporate a line(s) like:
   
  If    Time    Is LT    11:00 PM
  And    Time    Is GT 7:00 AM
  Then    TV Shows Announce    Set Speak
   
  Mark S
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tom Hutchins [mailto:hutchins ta@fuse.net]
    Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:06 PM
    To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
    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

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From: Mark Sekelsky

To: ecs-list@netbloc.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:23 PM

Subject: RE: [ECS] problem upgrading

I am not sure what you mean by editing VCR:REC, but if you mean editing the item in example.cfg the answer is no.  The HV unit needs to have your specific IR signals stored within it.

 

I know what you mean about midnight announcements.  When I first started playing with the TVL events I had "Star Trek" announced like a gazillion times after midnight.  In my case I have a "flag" set when we are in bed.  I simply added a IF (might be a BEGINIF) statement to not make announcements if we were in bed.  Mark has this in example.cfg as well (If Awake is Not True, or something like that).  If you don;t have a status such as these you could easily incorporate a line(s) like:

 

If    Time    Is LT    11:00 PM

And    Time    Is GT 7:00 AM

Then    TV Shows Announce    Set Speak

 

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hutchins [mailto:hutchins ta@fuse.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:06 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
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

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