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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/13/2015 11:22 AM, Jon Heizer
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM,
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<div class="h5">On 02/23/2015 07:03 PM, Jon Heizer
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Mythtv users. I'd like to present a new channel
changer script. If you are a Dish VIP 211 users
this will definitely work and it is AMAZING. It
uses ethernet to change the channels. NO MORE IR
BLASTERS!! Can you tell I'm excited? :)<br>
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Basically a few weeks ago I randomly plugged my STB
into the network for the first time in years. Being
the curious type I did port scans and such. There
was now a Upnp port open with control abilities.<br>
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Benefits over lirc scripts:<br>
- No LIRC<br>
- Super fast. Live tv is ~ 5 seconds to change
now. Even faster on first start up.<br>
- No more idling out to the screen saver after 4
hours. I disable it.<br>
- No LIRC<br>
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The one Negative: our VIP 211 receivers are smart
enough to use the same guide number for both HD when
available and SD when not. Sadly, the upnp
interface is not and it displays the SD feed. You
must update your channel data to use the super high
number channels. A bit of a pain I'll admit, but I
can't imagine going back now.<br>
I've been using this on my production system for
about 3 weeks now on 2 receivers and have not had a
single issue.<br>
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You can find the script at <a
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href="https://github.com/jheizer/UPnPChannelChanger"
target="_blank">https://github.com/jheizer/UPnPChannelChanger</a>
and I'll be updating that page this evening with
instructions for people using a different STB with
steps to detect Upnp and instructions to modify the
script.<br>
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Hi John,<br>
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I have been following this thread for a while and still pondering
the transition to Dish using your scripts.<br>
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I noticed there is also a vip-channellist script that pulls the
available channels from the receiver. In other thread today, there
is discussion about the visible flag for channels. It seems like it
would be possible to:<br>
1) Subscribe to all dish channels on schedules direct<br>
2) Run the vip-channellist script to get the valid channels for your
account<br>
3) update the visible flag in mythtv for those channels you are
getting today<br>
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if you ran this daily, hopefully you would get all of the weekend
special channels, etc as they come and go without having to mess
with any configuration.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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