GBPVR.gml Question

[MC001]

I've got :

Pace Sky Digital STB
A USBUIRT
Hauppage Silver Remote
Girder 3.3
Downloaded GBPVR.GML

Where in the GBPVR Commands group in the girder file do I teach the USBUIRT plugin the Sky STB IR codes to send on channel change events from GBPVR?

Sorry to be so thick :-(

M

[MC001]

Any help with Girder in general greatly appreciated... msm, you out there???

[sub]

msm or someone else will have to field this question. Girder and me think on different wave lengths - I just dont understand it.

[MC001]

Me too... or I so I thought. Did a little digging sub and found this...

- Added new 'Girder Channel Changer'. This sends events to Girder, allowing users to hook up all sorts of channel chaging functionality through the various Girder plugins. Uses the Girder Internet Event Server. Sends events labelled GB_TUNE_0 ... GB_TUNE_9. Also for those that can use them, sends GB_TUNE_EON 'end of number' and GB_CHANNEL_123 (123 is the new channel).

from the beta 13 release notes...

So here's the lowdown... for future reference.

How to Drive GBPVR via a remote and change channels on an STB.

What you will need...

1) A p.c....

just kidding...

1) GBPVR release 13 or greater
2) Girder 3.3 or later
3) An infrared remote
4) An IR Receiver
5) An IR Transmitter
6) GBPVR.GML (from http://www.gbpvr.com/plugins)

1) Install Girder
2) Install IR receiver plugin into girder
3) Install IT transmitter plugin into girder
4) Install GBPVR
5) If using Hauppage remote disable GBPVR support for it in config program as girder will be able to send the remote commands to GBPVR for you.
6) Import GBPVR.gml group into Girder
7) Open the GBPVR Commands group by clicking the + next to it
8) Click on the 1st command (Down)
9) Click the Learn Event button
10) Press the Down key on your remote
11) You just taught Girder a new event string. This means that whenever Girder detects that event, the DOWN keystroke will be sent to the GBPVR.exe window.
12) Repeat steps 8 - 10 for each command in the group and each corresponding button on your remote (last one is Blue).
13) Once this is down Girder is now able to control GBPVR. If you don't want to shift channels on a set top box stop reading now!
14) Ok here's the science bit as they say in shampoo ads... Open out the Messages sub group beneath the GBPVR commands group. You'll see 3 further sub groups, Send, Receive and Scripts.
15) Under send are defined the events which GBPVR sends to Girder thanks to subs top coding... (creep creep). These events are sent to girder via it's own internet event server. A plug in for girder that listens on a tcp port for events. So before we go much further we better set that up.
16) Go to File, settings in Girder.
17) Click on the plugins tab
18) Put a tick next to Internet Event Server
19) Click Apply to light up the settings buttons
20) Click settings and review the password and port boxes (write these down in your copy book now look around you fans).
21) Now exit that and then exit the settings dialogue too
22) Start GBPVR config
23) Edit your capture source
24) Select Girder Channel changer as your channel changer
25) Click settings for the channel changer
26) now make sure that the password and port are the same ones that were in the Girder Internet Event Server plugin
27) Ok everything and exit config prog
28) Right now back to Girder...
29) Under the Receive group is each event that GBPVR will send girder GB_TUNE_0 to 9... plus GB_TUNE_EON (end of number) which terminates the channel number and bundles it off to the STB via a wee script. We don't need to change anything on these commands.
30) Open out the Transmit group
31) Click on each command 1-RightArrow
32) Select the plugins tab and click settings
33) In the plugin settings dialogue for your IR transmitter, learn the remote button for the digit
34) That's it! When you change channels in GBPVR the IR codes for each channel should be sent out from your transmitter and shift the channel on the STB.

Cool huh?

And so to bed.

Night.

M

[sub]

Cheers. Thats a good write up that I'm sure others will find useful in future.

[davisj36]

I can't wait to try this when I get home. It's exactly what I was looking for...

[Guest]

Looks like a good write up. I will take a look at the .gml file at some point and finish the skin i am working on, i promise. At the moment i have alot on (trying to find a new job, looking for somewhere to live, busy at my current work) so i am finding it hard to fit in extras at the moment. I hope that it will all calm down soon . In the meantime, if you need anything more urgently then email me on matt@digital-illumination.net and i am likely to reply quicker.

Sorry for the lack of response,

Matt

[MC001]

No problem m8, without your work I wouldn't have got channel shifting up n running half as quick!

Good luck!