Tivo like TV Guide

[Moat]

I am a long time Tivo user and love the way they have thier TV Guide information. I was wondering if there is anyway to have GB-PVR display it's guide like that. Would it be possible to do that as a plugin?

Oh, thank you for all your hard work.

-Moat

[jorm]

some of us are not tivo owners. Can you describe the way tivos tv guide info looks

[reboot]

There's a TIVO skin on the wiki. Not sure how close it really is, but you could grab it and see. If it's not what you want, make your own

[Moat]

Sorry about that, here is a webpage with some screenshots:

It's the "Tivos own guide format" picture.

http://www.pvrcompare.com/dtimages.html

So the channels are listed in the right column with what is currently showing and the left column shows what's on for the next 4-5 hours of the currently selected channel. Bad description I know, sorry.

-Moat

[Lucas_24]

That's really nice, guide2J does something similar, where you select a channel and get a list of upcoming episodes for that channel, I really liket he Tivo format though where you see current shows for all channels, and a breakdown of that channel when the channel is selected, very nice indeed.

[reboot]

Do you mean just the visual appearance? That's just skinning.
The information is mostly there (in Guide2j), and is the same as tivo.

[Moat]

I'm looking for the information and it's layout. Guide2j is close in it's vertical form. List all channels on the right with the thier current show and not just one channel and on the left side move the decriptions to a box (top or bottom) and by moving the description you will be able to see a longer time line. I like seeing a longer timeline, helps find shows quick or plan my recordings.

I'm looking at the source for Guide2j and I'll have to do some learning before I could make at run at even trying something like this.

-Moat

[reboot]

I get it. Skinning it is easy, but it would be great to have a 4 hour timeline, instead of just two.
Sub? possible or no?

[jrockintuitive]

I'm the dev of guide2j-- what are you looking for?

I should be able to start work again in a few weeks- I hope.

[Moat]

jrockintuitive,
I was just wanting to see if there was a way to have a TV Guide option that displays information like the Tivo's guide does. There is a link to a picture in this thread but this a quick screen setup:

Code:

--------------------------------------------
-  Show Desc/Information                   -
-                                          -
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- *1 ABC Current Show* |  5:00 News        -
-  2 CBS Current Show  |  5:30 ABC News    -
-  3 NBC Current Show  |  6:00 Show 1      -
-  4 WGN Current Show  |  7:00 Show 2      -
-  5 CNN Current Show  |  8:00 Show 3      -
-  6 BLA Current Show  |  9:00 Show 4      -
-  7 TFT Current Show  |  10:00 News       -
--------------------------------------------

Man I stink at ascii artwork But hopefully the idea gets across.

-Moat