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| Subject: From: Date: | RE: [ECS] problem upgrading David Kindred Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:55:07 -0500 |
Hey, Tom.
Our cable system is exactly the same here, that's why Mark made some
enhancements to TVL1 a couple of weeks ago--for me! What a pal. Anyway, I
found the Xcite code for my cable system which included the cable channel
numbers for the box. (Hilt, if you're tuned in, it's "MD53200".) I had to
create a custom MD53200.CHN file with all the correct channel numbers in it
so they could be translated into the ones used by my cable ready VCR. The
TVL.BAT item now reads "TVL.BAT MD53200 8 1"
Now, I have the correct channel assignments showing up in the TV Listings. I
haven't gotten announcements or recordings to work yet, because of work.
Can't wait to get back to it, though.
I don't know if it's been pointed out to everyone, but Xcite does have
listings for all of the cable companies, which would include local channels.
You don't have to be stuck with just the TZ-E entries if you don't want to.
--David
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Hutchins-TA [mailto:hutchins.ta@pg.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:20 AM
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Don,
Many of the channel #'s are different between the basic and the std for
example
TBS is channel 6 on std and channel 57 on basic. Go figure.
Tom
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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
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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
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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
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:23 PM
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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
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From: Tom Hutchins [mailto:hutchins_ta@fuse.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:06 PM
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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