[mythtv-users] New Upnp Channel Changer Script (Dish VIP 211 users definitely read)

Jon Heizer jheizer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 00:51:11 UTC 2015


Some updates:

VIP 222k specific script added with tuner selecting
-h usage information added to all scripts
--curl and --wget options added to the channellist script

Jon

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Martin Compton <martinc at itrans.com> wrote:

>  On 02/26/2015 11:14 AM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Dan Wilga <
> mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
>
>> So I've been tinkering with the upnp interface for my VIP 211k receivers,
>> and I'm pretty sure I've found a way to turn off the annoying nightly
>> firmware updates that can't be disabled from the normal UI.
>>
>> Make a copy of Jon's original vip211-channellist script (from
>> https://github.com/jheizer/UPnPChannelChanger) and replace the call to
>> upnp_send near the end of the script with this:
>>
>>   upnp_send $HOST 'Updates' '<Enable_disable>Disable</Enable_disable>'
>>
>> Then, call your edited script, passing it the IP address of your
>> receiver.
>>
>> _______________________________________
>>
>
>
>  Do you know the effects of doing this though?  I had debated including
> it but I never have anything recording at 3am so I left it.  Will you lose
> new channel updates?  Miss getting access to preview channels?  etc?
>
>  Jon
>
>  I tried that when the UPnP interface first started showing up: it did not
> honor that setting and rebooted at the scheduled time anyway.  Note that in
> the ViP222k you cannot disable the automatic updates via the menu, only
> change the update time.  It is worth testing, though, as that was at least
> a year ago.
>
> It didn't affect channel updates or free preview channel additions, just
> guide data and any firmware update that may be available.
>
> MC
>
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