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Date:		 Re: [ECS] problem upgrading
Don Stephens
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:03:57 -0800
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:03:57 -0800 
Tom:
 Am I to understand that your cable company's basic channel lineup is DIFFERENT than
the enhanced cable..or do you need different IR-Signals for the VCR and Cable Box?
Don
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Thomas Hutchins-TA 
  To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
  Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading


  All,

  Never mind about the announcement before recording part, figured that one out
  with help from Mark S. & Don.

  Now, my basic cable (TIME WARNER) is fed directly into the VCR on this set and
  so I don't need to use the cable box but rather the VCR to select the channel.
  However on my other set I will use the std cable box to change channels and the
  two don't necessarily use the same channel #'s(thanks TIME WARNER:-(). Therefore
  I don't want to just set the cable channels to work with the VCR.

  To make a long story short would I create a new event called 'VCR chan set' and
  add a reference to it in TVR just like 'cable chan set' and use some logic to
  decide which "   chan set" to use?

  And to get really bizarre how hard would it be to have 2 TV-guides one for basic
  cable (VCR) and one for std cable box.

  If anyone has read this far and wondering why in the hell would anyone go to
  this much trouble it's because the cable box is in the living room and all hell
  would break loose if in the middle of 'Blues Clues' the TV switched to record
  the football game for me. So most of the recording will happen on the second
  TV/VCR but it doesn't get all of the cable channels and I can't afford the extra
  cable boxes just for this!

  Thanks,

  Tom


                                                                   
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  From: "Tom Hutchins" <hutchins ta@fuse.net> on 01/05/2000 09:46 PM

  Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com

  To:   ecs-list@netbloc.com
  cc:    (bcc: Thomas Hutchins-TA/PGI)
  Subject:  Re: [ECS] problem upgrading




  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
Tom:
 Am I to understand that your cable company's basic channel lineup is DIFFERENT than the enhanced cable..or do you need different IR-Signals for the VCR and Cable Box?
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Hutchins-TA
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading

All,

Never mind about the announcement before recording part, figured that one out
with help from Mark S. & Don.

Now, my basic cable (TIME WARNER) is fed directly into the VCR on this set and
so I don't need to use the cable box but rather the VCR to select the channel.
However on my other set I will use the std cable box to change channels and the
two don't necessarily use the same channel #'s(thanks TIME WARNER:-(). Therefore
I don't want to just set the cable channels to work with the VCR.

To make a long story short would I create a new event called 'VCR chan set' and
add a reference to it in TVR just like 'cable chan set' and use some logic to
decide which " chan set" to use?

And to get really bizarre how hard would it be to have 2 TV-guides one for basic
cable (VCR) and one for std cable box.

If anyone has read this far and wondering why in the hell would anyone go to
this much trouble it's because the cable box is in the living room and all hell
would break loose if in the middle of 'Blues Clues' the TV switched to record
the football game for me. So most of the recording will happen on the second
TV/VCR but it doesn't get all of the cable channels and I can't afford the extra
cable boxes just for this!

Thanks,

Tom


                                                                
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From: "Tom Hutchins" <hutchins ta@fuse.net> on 01/05/2000 09:46 PM

Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com

To:   ecs-list@netbloc.com
cc:    (bcc: Thomas Hutchins-TA/PGI)
Subject:  Re: [ECS] problem upgrading




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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