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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> Sat 15-12-2012 22:51<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] New Sky+ App - control Sky box via tcp/ip network<br /><strong>Attachment:</strong> skychange.tar.gz<br /><strong>To:</strong> mythtv-users@mythtv.org; <br />Updated version. The response from the channel change doesn't seem to <br />provide anything to determine if the change was successful or not, so <br />after sending the channel change command, it now checks the current <br />channel a second time, to check that it has changed to the correct channel.<br /><br />I had thought of adding a function to download the channel data from <br />http://tv.sky.com/channel/index, process and update the channel guide <br />file we are using.<br /><br />Enjoy.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Michael Watson<br /><br /><br /></blockquote><p>Hi Michael,</p><p> </p><p>Yes, that seems to work ok, although I'm not sure how I can set up a fail condition, although a false fail condition happens if I switch from watching a recording (on the sky box) to a live channel - I think a small delay needs to exist before checking the channel a second time (maybe a second or 2), otherwise the sky box returns the previous channel/pvr information.</p><p> </p><p>I think a function to download that channel guide information would be a very good idea - I don't think the channel id's are likely to change, but the channel numbers change on a fairly regular basis. Presumably Sky themselves maintain this file, so it is probably a better source of channel data than the file we have been using. </p><p> </p><p>Am I right in thinking that you don't have a sky+hd box yourself to try all this out on? If so, hats off to you for doing all this "blind".</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave</p>
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