[mythtv-users] Great source for channel icons (was -->
"http://www.lyngsat-logo.com")
Stephen Boddy
stephen.boddy at btinternet.com
Wed Dec 21 20:38:40 EST 2005
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:26, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> > "http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/logo/tv/ww/wset_abc13_lynchburg.jpg" and the
> > station name "WSET 13 Lynchburg" but doesn't find eityher.
>
> Ok, this was my fault. I was pointing at "us" and not at the various
> states as I assumed "us" would include all of them. I've wipped all of my
> existing icons, and modified my source to to also store the URL in my
> channel table of the icon it found for easily generating a list of them
> when I'm done.
>
> I also got channel dumps from a few friends with dishnet and have filled
> in several hundred of those channels. So if we use external "master files"
> , say with a default file and a command parameter override to point to a
> specific file then it should be system to pull the callsign name and URL
> out and generate the files. I've got about 80% of the icons done from
> the dishnet 110w satellite as well as almost all of the stations available
> on my local Cable ISP.
Been out all day, so I've only just caught up on this thread. My God! You
"'mericuns" don't half make things complicated!!!
I'll be away from my main system for the next week, but I'll take the guts
with me on the lappyb and see if I can't make some progress. I'm going to try
and list the outstanding requests here:
1. Seperate out the country/state code specific parts. I think it is
additionally a good idea to move the country/state specific settings to here
too. Then an command line option will be added to pass a country code/state
field to the program. These files will just be a python file containing
variables that get imported. It's very easy, and I don't have to go making up
config file formats ;-) If not passed program will default to a country/state
code defined in main the program file, as it does now.
2. Add a command line option to restrict to the channels of a particular
source id. If not passed program behaves as it does now.
3. Attempt a (fuzzy?) match against the callsign of a channel.
4. Add a "Processing web pages, please wait..." message.
5. I can sort of see a way to build composites to deal with us(-il|--in)
situations. i.e. the command line parameter is a comma seperated list of
master lists that are all loaded at once. Any thoughts guys, as this is a
feature you need, not me?
6. Fix the program from wigging out (line 200) when the country code does not
exist. This will probably be substantially changed anyway, going to seperate
file master lists/settings.
I can just see me trying to figure this little lot out with a belly full of
turkey and "several" beers inside of me 8-P
While we're piling on ideas, does anyone have anymore before I lose my nice
threaded, sorted mail lists over the next week?
Just a note on perl that Steve A. made. Might be easier for you, but I simply
never liked the syntax :-) If it wasn't in python, it wouldn't have gotten
written. Don't mean to come off a zealot, but I find python very quick and
easy to read and write, very quick and easy to debug (except when it is I
myself that is the bug ;-) and very featureful (batteries included) meaning I
don't have to fart around tracking down libraries, installing them, then
figuring out how to use them. They're included, and very well documented. And
finally, when I come back to a piece of python after an extended period, I
grok what it's doing and how as I read it. With perl I just see gibberish.
I would seriously recommend taking the hour or so to work through the
tutorial. It is staggeringly easy to become productive with python in a very
short period of time.
--
Steve Boddy
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