[mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system

[Craig Tinson]

Neil Bird wrote:

> Around about 09/08/05 02:29, Craig Tinson typed ...
>
>> I use redeye serial too.. but with a *very* simple one line bash 
>> script.. would be interested in what you've done with redeye.c and 
>> the script too..
>
>
>   Okey-doke.  I make no pretention that I'm the original 
> author/modifier! The 'digibox.c' [née red_eye.c] and its Makefile I 
> purloined from somewhere and then fine-tuned to speed it up 
> (near-instant channel changes now).
>
>   The skychannel bash script (which does the deed from Myth & uses 
> digibox) is pretty much my own, but with some file-locking thrown in.  
> I did purloin the file locking originally, but I think I completely 
> re-wrote the mechanism after a while.
>
>
>   usage: skychannel <channum>    [100 <= channum <= 999]
>
>   Copes with turning on the digibox if its off, and also (as it's once 
> happened to me while I was hammering another remote at the exact same 
> time the script ran) tries turning it on a second time in case the 
> first power-on got missed.
>
>   Also blats the zap-banner upon channel change (as Myth provides one).
>
>   [don't forget Sky now has a setup option to timeout the little red 
> dot interactive logo things]
>
>   Also hangs about for a little over 4 hours and turns the box off 
> (unless called again in the meantime) to 'reduce' power and ensure the 
> box gets resets to cope with S/W updates, etc.  It's a timeout as I 
> couldn't easily tell when progs. finished and deserved a power-off.  4 
> hours seemed enough (if you think you'll record individual progs. 
> longer that that, change the timeout).
>
thanks Neil

it's a hell of a lot faster than what I've been using so far - and with 
it doing things a couple of times it looks like it will be a lot more 
reliable too :)

thanks for this.. will try it out for a couple of days and report

nice work :)

Cheers

Craig