Direct TV Woes

[GaryJ73167]

Nope ignore all the SageTV stuff.

Martin

Ok....I downloaded DVTune.Exe and confirmed that (from command line) I can control the channel changing........so, it is seeing my Box and working fine changing channels immediately upon input.

The command is very simple. "dtvTune.exe -ip 192.168.0.8 -channel 258"

Now for the BIG thing

how do I incorporate this into NPVR to bypass the IR blaster?

I realize I need to point the Device to a bat file , bypassing the IR Blaster, but, do i use the bat file that came with DVtune? I thought I was good at scripting, but, dont know what needs to be modified in the batch. Looks a bit confusing to me

The receiver IP is 192.168.0.8

This is the BAT file contents:

echo off
cls
rem Created Jan 10 2011
rem This batch file uses the dtvTune executable to change channels on DTV
rem STBs via the ethernet connection.
rem
rem This batchfile and the dtvTune.exe file go into the SageTV directory
rem
rem You also need to add the following registry key (as a string type) to
rem HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\EXEMultiTunerPlugin
rem "command"="DirecTVMultiChg.bat %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"
rem
rem In the script below, the %1 represents the tuner device (%DEVICE%) name
rem passed from SageTV. The %2 represents the channel (%CHANNEL%) value passed
rem from SageTV.
rem Both values used as arguments to the executable batch file

rem Each device must be assigned to an IP address
set CURDEVICE=%1
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU StubDevice set USEIP=192.168.0.200
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS2 set USEIP=192.168.0.201
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS3 set USEIP=192.168.0.202
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS4 set USEIP=192.168.0.203
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS5 set USEIP=192.168.0.204

rem Convert channel designations to tuning commands
set CHANRAW=%2
rem It is unclear at this point if we need to support dashed channels. Even
rem if we did, it should probably be added to the dtvTune executable and not
rem here...
rem Keeping this code around just in case
rem set DASHCHECK=%CHANRAW:~-2%
rem set ISDASHED=%DASHCHECK:~0,1%
rem IF %ISDASHED% EQU - goto adddash
rem set CHANPRE=N/A
rem set CHANPRERAW=N/A
rem set CHANSUB=N/A
rem set USECHANNEL=%CHANRAW%
rem goto dotuning

dtvTune.exe -channel %CHANRAW% -ip %USEIP%

[GaryJ73167]

Ok....I downloaded DVTune.Exe and confirmed that (from command line) I can control the channel changing........so, it is seeing my Box and working fine changing channels immediately upon input.

The command is very simple. "dtvTune.exe -ip 192.168.0.8 -channel 258"

Now for the BIG thing

how do I incorporate this into NPVR to bypass the IR blaster?

I realize I need to point the Device to a bat file , bypassing the IR Blaster, but, do i use the bat file that came with DVtune? I thought I was good at scripting, but, dont know what needs to be modified in the batch. Looks a bit confusing to me

The receiver IP is 192.168.0.8

This is the BAT file contents:

echo off
cls
rem Created Jan 10 2011
rem This batch file uses the dtvTune executable to change channels on DTV
rem STBs via the ethernet connection.
rem
rem This batchfile and the dtvTune.exe file go into the SageTV directory
rem
rem You also need to add the following registry key (as a string type) to
rem HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\EXEMultiTunerPlugin
rem "command"="DirecTVMultiChg.bat %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"
rem
rem In the script below, the %1 represents the tuner device (%DEVICE%) name
rem passed from SageTV. The %2 represents the channel (%CHANNEL%) value passed
rem from SageTV.
rem Both values used as arguments to the executable batch file

rem Each device must be assigned to an IP address
set CURDEVICE=%1
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU StubDevice set USEIP=192.168.0.200
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS2 set USEIP=192.168.0.201
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS3 set USEIP=192.168.0.202
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS4 set USEIP=192.168.0.203
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU DSS5 set USEIP=192.168.0.204

rem Convert channel designations to tuning commands
set CHANRAW=%2
rem It is unclear at this point if we need to support dashed channels. Even
rem if we did, it should probably be added to the dtvTune executable and not
rem here...
rem Keeping this code around just in case
rem set DASHCHECK=%CHANRAW:~-2%
rem set ISDASHED=%DASHCHECK:~0,1%
rem IF %ISDASHED% EQU - goto adddash
rem set CHANPRE=N/A
rem set CHANPRERAW=N/A
rem set CHANSUB=N/A
rem set USECHANNEL=%CHANRAW%
rem goto dotuning

dtvTune.exe -channel %CHANRAW% -ip %USEIP%

I figured it out

My bat file I am using (and it is working fine) is

C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\http\dtvtune.exe -ip 192.168.0.8 -channel %1

So simple, yet so effective.....thanks for the guidance all.....

[GaryJ73167]

Wow. This is so great and seems SOOO MUCH more reliable (I hope I didn't just jinx myself). I wish i knew about this months ago. I would have never even bothered using the IR Blaster

[GaryJ73167]

Now that I have things working smoothly (thanks to the help from this thread), I have a question about the batch file I am using.

Which only has 1 line - "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\http\dtvtune.exe -ip 192.168.0.8 -channel %1"

Rather than leave my DirectTV box on 24/7, I want to send a command to turn the box on before a recording, and then turn it off once the recording is finished

The only thing that concerns me about this, is, sometimes, I have recordings scheduled back-to-back. I would be afraid that after one recording ends, and the next recording overlaps it would shut the receiver off and never get the 2nd recording.

Any ideas on this ?

[mvallevand]

Any ideas on this ?

Because of tuning problems I avoid putting my STB to sleep in fact I wake it up in my epg update process.

Assuming you want this and don't use LiveTV I would do it in postprocessing.bat First follow this advice g http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post508378 (isRecording code is broken it doesn't check against in-progress recordings plus it won't work with live tv) and shut down as desired.

Martin

[GaryJ73167]

Because of tuning problems I avoid putting my STB to sleep in fact I wake it up in my epg update process.

Assuming you want this and don't use LiveTV I would do it in postprocessing.bat First follow this advice g http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post508378 (isRecording code is broken it doesn't check against in-progress recordings plus it won't work with live tv) and shut down as desired.

Martin

Thanks for the reply......honestly, it kinda sounds like it is more of a hassle than it's worth.......I will just leave my DirectTV receiver powered on for recordings