USB-UIRT InterCodeDelay - does it work?

[blader_se]

OK, I now got myself a crude looking bat file but it works!

Code:

IF %1==1 (
uutx.exe -fx0.txt 0
uutx.exe -f0x.txt 1
) ELSE IF %1==2 (
uutx.exe -fx0.txt 0
uutx.exe -f0x.txt 2
)...

I'll also try he "double digit" entry mentioned at the USB-UIRT forum later on.

[blader_se]

Aaargh, I spoke to soon. It's sometimes to slow to invoke the uutx twice, so it still can't change doubble-digit channels reliable. Back to the drawing board....

[steves]

Blader,

Where did you get hold of uutx from please?

Cheers

Steve

[lchiu7]

Something like this might work
---------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
SET Channel=%1
IF NOT '%Channel%'=='' SET Channel=%Channel:~0,1%
Rem - call uutx here with %channel as the first digit to send
SET digit=%Channel:~1,2%
if '%digit%' == '' goto end
Rem Call uutx again for the second digit if it exists - could repeat this code digits
:end

[blader_se]

Thanks for that code snippet! Unfortunatly my problem is currently that it takes too long to do two separate invocations of the uutx. The box switches to channel 1 first, then to channel 2, instead of directly to channel 12 :-(

[lchiu7]

I have a stranger problem. With that code snippet I am able to sent via uutx the single and double digit numbers. My cable box seems to want to wait for the second digit so if you sent say 1 and then after 20 sec 2 it actually enters 12. So it's a different problem from yours where the cable box switches immediately.

My problem is I wrote a batch file that uses that code segment and sends the uutx commands. It works fine when invoked from the command line but if I use the exe channel changer option in gbpvr and try to change channels, it never fires off the bat file! No idea why

Can you tell me how you told gbpvr to call you bat file? I thought it was as simple as choosing the exe channel changer in the options menu and pointing to the bat file. gbpvr would pass (channel) as the first option to the bat fils

[blader_se]

I thought it was as simple as choosing the exe channel changer in the options menu and pointing to the bat file. gbpvr would pass (channel) as the first option to the bat fils

Yes, that's how I did it. Except it won't show anything but exe files, so you manually have to enter the name of the .bat file. (And write {channel} in the argument text box.) You also have to make sure that the .bat file can find all files it needs (dll etc), the simpliest way is to dump everything in the gbpvr directory.

[jksmurf]

Something like this might work
---------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
SET Channel=%1
IF NOT '%Channel%'=='' SET Channel=%Channel:~0,1%
Rem - call uutx here with %channel as the first digit to send
SET digit=%Channel:~1,2%
if '%digit%' == '' goto end
Rem Call uutx again for the second digit if it exists - could repeat this code digits
:end

Code:

@echo off
SET Channel=%1
IF NOT '%Channel%'=='' SET Channel=%Channel:~0,1%
REM
REM - call uutx with %Channel as the first digit to send
REM
uutx.exe -r3 -s10 -fGXPC4312H.ir %Channel
REM
SET digit=%Channel:~1,2%
if '%digit%' == '' goto end
REM
Rem Call uutx again for the second digit if it exists
REM
uutx.exe -r3 -s10 -fGXPC4312H.ir %Channel
REM
SET digit=%Channel:~2,3%
if '%digit%' == '' goto end
REM
Rem Call uutx again for the third digit if it exists
REM
uutx.exe -r3 -s10 -fGXPC4312H.ir %Channel
:end

Old thread I know, but I am experimenting with this channel changer thing and I need some help with batch files please. I have one working that is a loop (that someone else wrote), but I would like to try to separate the repeat (-r) and wait (-s) parameters depending on the digit (1, 2 or 3).

On this I get an error "Error: unable to find codeName 'Channel' in codeFile 'GXPC4312H.ir' " but I am not sure how to pass the nth number in the channel to the uutx exe. I tried as directed above %channel as the first digit to send?

Cheers

k.

[EDIT] - Also, does anywone know a uutx code for flushing codes from the IR sent to the STB? Sometimes it sends just the first two digits sometimes the last, sometimes it misses the middle digit as pictured. It seems random or per channel how this happens. If I send too many one after the other it seems to send an errant one later.

[Graham]

"OK everyone ... We have a snazzy new television and Daddy is going to plug it in for you.."

... ... ... Weeks later ...

"Mummy, there's a strange man in the living room ... he has wild eyes and straggly hair and a long beard."
"It's alright guys ... that's Daddy ... he promises that the new television will be plugged in before Christmas."

[jksmurf]

ROTLMAO. You nailed it in one.