Error Trapping Advisor based on Log Messages

[jksmurf]

This might be way out of kilter, pie-in-the-sky sort of stuff, but having hung around here for a little while now, it would almost seem that at least 60% of the problems sub answers, he does so within a very short space of time, by simply looking at someone's logs and saying:

a. "you're missing a decoder"
b. "you're missing a mux file"
c. "you've selected the wrong card"
d. "You have no channel selected"
e. etc.

i.e. Stock Answers, even given the plethora of cards and combos of muxes and decoders that exist.

If sub can do that witjin 2 minutes by just looking at the logs, would it not then be possible to have the GBPVR program "look at the logs" and tell the user the same thing, automatically, so that user could be told to go off and

a. "Install a decoder. Start with installing the software that came with your Card, or Install a program like PowrDVD or WinDVD"
b. "you're missing a mux file. Start with installing the software that came with your Card, or Install a program like PowrDVD or WinDVD"
c. "you've selected the wrong card". For the PVR series, the Hauppage Tool sub recently posted can DETECT the card type, so could it not also tell the user, "hey silly billy, you selected the WRONG card, you have a PVR250, not a PVR150"
d. "You have no channel selected. Select one in Config".
e. etc.

saving sub billions of hours to develop the program further in the process :-) or are there simply too many ways those SIMPLE error types can be generated?

Perhaps even one of the way-out-there devleopers could write an error-code plugin be able to do this...

k.

[Old Dog]

Pattern recognition is so easy for people, but usually difficult and error prone for computers.