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Richard Eyton

I am trying to write a dabdig plugin for meedio TV and I need a bit of help.

The information that I can currently get from meedio to pass to dabdig on the command line is the following :

schedule-id = 7

tuner-id = 1

lineup-id = 1

channel-id = 6

program-id = 2377

caption = Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

duration = 2400.0000002794

duration-text = 00:40:00

start-time = 26/11/2004 23:20:00

end-time = 27/11/2004

As you can see there is no channel name. Can I leave the channel name parameter blank "" and still expect dabdig to work ?

I have tried this out with my nebula digitv and it doesn't seem to work.

Could I make a dabdig.map and expect dabdig to convert the channel number to a name if needed ? it only talks about doing name -> number conversions in the FAQ

I think it should be possible in the future to get the channel name out of meedio, but at present I have no idea where it stores it's mappings or how to get at them and I would rather not have to work it out if it is not necessary Blush . Meedio TV is still in beta and the API is not finalised/documented yet so I may be able to get the channel name added to the info sent in the message that I can read.

Any help much appreciated

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Paul Webster

I really should do this myself ... but I haven't really played with Meedio since the first beta.

I did get a note from Pablo that said that they intended to ensure that the old myHTPC TV plug-ins would work without change. If that is true then my old plug-in should work - although it is harder to find on their site nowadays. I can send you the .wsc file that makes myHTPC work with DABDig.

Anyway - the channel name is not essential to DABDig. In fact, in many cases (different devices) it is ignored.

The dabdig.map mechanism is usually thought of as taking a given name and generating a new channel number - but if there is no channel name provided in the command line then (I think) it uses the given channel number as the input to dabdig.map

I'll try and make some time to have a look at the current state of the Meedio API etc and see if I can quickly adapt what I did before for myHTPC.

Paul Webster

DABDig creator