Change channel programmatically?

[MaidenQuebec]

Hi,

I am writing a small tray program to Alert me a few minutes before a show starts (reminders set using EWA) and so far it works fine.

I would like to add an option so it automatically change the channel on my set top box when I click the balloon that popped up. Everything is well configured within GB-PVR but I would like to change the channel in my software so I suppose there is a way to call a channel change using the API. So far I have only worked with ScheduleHelper object and I would like to know if this can be done.

I see all those different ExeChannelChanger, GirderTunerController and others but since GB-PVR already knows how to change channel, I suppose I should be able to work whit an higher level object which will call the right Channel changer object.

Any chance I can get some code to get me started?

Thanks!

[JavaWiz]

You might try something along the lines of

Code:

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[/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#2b91af][SIZE=2][COLOR=#2b91af]PluginHelperFactory[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2].getPluginHelper().StartLiveTV([/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]this[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2].ChannelInfo);[/SIZE][SIZE=2]
[/SIZE]

Where this.ChannelInfo is a Channel object.

[sub]

Sorry, but the call above, and the various other GB-PVR api arent callable outside of the PVRX2.exe and GBPVRRecordingService.exe processes. They depend on functionality in those modules.

[MaidenQuebec]

So I suppose I can't really access any of the IRBlaster API configured in GB-PVR to blast my set top box using a GB-PVR API?

[sub]

Sorry no. There is a few reasons why, but the most critical is what I mentioned above about the GB-PVR api only being usable inside the GB-PVR processes.

[MaidenQuebec]

Ok. It is only a problem because I wanted to make my small app available here.

For my need, I can just call IRServer suite and send it the channel number using Shell.

Do you plan to add Reminders in GB-PVR in the future? I mean there is a reminder feature in the API but something that would popup in the GBPVR Tray would be nice. In fact that is why I've made one, maybe only usefull for me who knows?

Thanks again for this great piece of software!

[sub]

The reminder API exists because there use to be functionality to this in the old GBPVR.exe user interface. It was never a popular feature though, so when I replaced GBPVR.exe with PVXR2.exe I didnt bother to try replicating this behaviour.

It didnt use to popup tray reminders from the tray icon, but it would automatically start live tv on that channel, or switch the running live tv to that channel.