channel-changer extension

[teris]

Hi Sub,

I'm writing a small software for german pay-tv (premiere) users.
Here I have a external box connected to my tv-card.
In my XMLTV I've all stations and can switch the channels with an infrared-sender.

This works fine, BUT:
When a movie is not approved for childreen, you must enter a pin-code. For example: The movie at 14:00 is FSK 16 (you must 16 years old), you need a pin. If the same movie comes at 23:00, you need no pin.

My program should change the channel AND send the pin to active the movie.

In the xmltv-file you can find this:

<rating system="FSK">
<value>16</value>
</rating>

(means 16 years)

Is it possible to use this values like fsk or channel-name from xmtlv as a channel-changer-parameter ?

This would be very nice.

Thanks.

Sebastian

[krypton_john]

Maybe you could code up this functionality with Girder using LUA scripts. It won't be tricial but it does sound feasible.

[narkuma]

What is Your small software for? ( I am a premiere user...)

[teris]

Hi,

I've solved the problem. Now I've a little PHP-Script as channel-changer. This get the channel number and looks into the xmltv-database. If any pin-code is needed, it will be sent.

Now I don't need this. My new Humax-D-Box ignores the pin, if it is not needed. So my script sents this:
channel-number, ok, exit, wait 1 second, pin-code, ok
With IRtrans and a small batch-file, no php is needed and works great.

So I can youse all pay-tv-channels without additional epg-data.

If anybode is interested, I would send my script to this forum.

Bye,
Sebastian

[dneprrider]

Hi Sebastian,

Could you post your script to this forum. It would be useful for others to use directly or for reference for building similar scripts.

Thanks,
Richard