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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Michael Watson <michael@thewatsonfamily.id.au><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Fri 14-12-2012 20:49<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] New Sky+ App - control Sky box via tcp/ip network<br /><strong>To:</strong> mythtv-users@mythtv.org; <br />Not a Problem, happy to assist. I am by no means an expert in python <br />either, but if you need help with the error handling and checking of <br />current channel, let me know. I will need an example of the data <br />returned after a successful channel change, and after a change when its <br />already on that channel. I found the code to query the current channel. <br />but it looks a bit vague.<br /><br />Current playing or current channel is returned by:<br />SkyControl SkyPlay GetMediaInfo<br />Set InstanceID value to: 0<br /><br />CurrentURI : xsi://17FC<br />This indicates channel ITV1 Meridian South or<br />CurrentURI : file://pvr/29004438<br />in the case of a recording.<br /><br /></blockquote><p>Yes, I've managed to amend the script now so that it first checks (using GetMediaInfo) to see what is showing on the Sky box, if the CurrentURI line contains a match for the hex code of the channel we're changing to, the script exits. I had to write the response.read() data into a file before I could search for the value - I'm sure there's probably a more efficient way of achieving this, but hey - it works!</p><p> </p><p>I've attached the scipt and the channel data file (which I now store in /etc/mythtv/sky_channel_guide.txt) just in case anyone else might find it useful. It's not particularly neat and tidy (unlike your original), so hopefully people won't look too closely at it and give me a hard time.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks again for all your help.</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave.</p>
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