Set Top Box Configuration

[MC001]

I'm going to start work on a utility that will make it easy to configure the source channels used on external set top boxes that you might be using with GBPVR.

For example in the UK there are 4 main Digital TV Providers :

Sky, Freeview, Telewest and NTL - each provider uses different channel numbers that you would need to tell GBPVR about if you wanted to channel shift using an IR Blaster.

For example :

On a Sky Set top box BBC 3 is channel 115
On a Freeview set top box it is 07
On Telewest it is 106
On NTL it is 011

What I aim to do is make it as easy and painless as possible to configure your GBPVR installation to run with your set top box, wherever you are in the world.

This is where I need your help! What I'd like to do in this thread is start a survey of the users of GBPVR around the world asking you to submit and post a list of the channels you need to map on your set top box.

The data I need is :

Provider Name (e.g. Sky Digital)

Then a list of :

Channel No,Display Name
e.g.

MTV,440
MTV2,441
CNN,513

Obviously we can take it as read that I have the UK covered!

I realised that this set-up should be a one time only task but it can take a while to do manually and anything we can do to make GBPVR easier for people to get going can only be as good thing. In some regionals your XMLTV file may also be such that this step isn't necessary, but for people like me in the uk - it isnt!

Thanks in advance for your help.

M

[lagrian]

Just to add there is NTL Cable analogue and digital in the UK.

For instance I have NTL digital and BBC3 is on channel 126. My friend has NTL analogue and BBC3 is on 011.

Here is my NTL Digital list. Well its someone elses but that person has done it so well I thought I would nab it.

NTL Digital Listings

Good idea though MC001, look forward to seeing it.

[MC001]

Thanks m8, good point about the analogue NTL. Presumably there may still be the odd Telewest analogue user out there? I dunno.

Cheers for the listing.

M

[AndyCherry]

Adding support for tuning standard analogue based on regional variation would be great too!

For example, I live in the Meridian ITV region, and get BBC South, so my channels are:

BBC1 South - channel 39
BBC2 South - channel 45
ITV1 Meridian - channel 42
Channel 4 - channel 66
five - channel 35

Each regional BBC and ITV channel will have a different tuning channel (I think Channel 4 and five are the only ones that are "national" - with the addition of S4C too!.

Each time I reload GBPVR I have to re-tune the channels. Now all we need is someone (bleb.org?) to set the id's directly into the XMLTV files, and all this would be redundant!

Cheers,
Andy

[MC001]

Thanks Andy,

I'll make sure I support your channel config m8! Now if the XMLTV feed were to be updated I'd have no reason to continue with my first c# project would I?



M