Developing without Tuner Card

[KingArgyle]

Sub, is there any possibility of allowing a program to be scheduled through the ScheduleHelper if you don't have a tuner card installed? I'd rather use your API instead of manually adding it to the Database myself. However, currently if I try to schedule a program on my development machine (which doesn't have a tuner card), the scheduling fails because it tries to initialize or grab the capture device. Something like a NullCapture device, or at least a stub that simulates a capture device would be nice.

I just need something to develop test against.

Can a Development Capture device be added to the Configuration file? Might be the easiest way to solve this instead of actually changing the API too much that interfaces with it.

[jorm]

My development machine does not have a capture card. I have not seen a problem.

I did setup zaptoit. And told the config that I have a capture card.

[KingArgyle]

What I'm getting is a warning saying no Capture card found, even after running the config. No problem as eveything seems to be alright, and I can even manually schedule a recording through the Web Admin, but through a console based application I can't seem to add a manual recording to the schedule. When I call the ScheduleRecording method through the ScheduleHelper I get a null pointer reference returned, and when i check the Manage recordings, I don't see the program added to the schedule. Here is the section of code I'm using for testing:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> foreach (Programme program in channel.getProgrammeList()) {
String findString = program.getTitle().ToUpper();

if (findString.IndexOf(searchFor.ToUpper(), 0) >= 0) {
Console.WriteLine("Found: " + searchFor);
Console.WriteLine("Title: " + program.getTitle());
Console.WriteLine("Channel: " + channel.channelName);
Console.WriteLine("Start Time: " + program.getStartTime().ToLongDateString() + " " + program.getStartTime().ToLongTimeString());
Console.WriteLine("End Time: " + program.getEndTime().ToLongDateString() + " " + program.getEndTime().ToLongTimeString());
ScheduledRecording myRecording = scheduleHelper.SheduleRecording(program.getChannelOID(), program.getStartTime(), program.getEndTime(), program, ScheduledRecording.TYPE_RECORD_ONCE, ScheduledRecording.GROUP_NONE, null);

}
}
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Not sure why I'm getting the null pointer, as I've verified that all the Program infromation that is being passed is correct.

[KingArgyle]

Very odd thing... If I pass the program OID to the Detail.aspx page, and schedule the recording from there it works like a champ. If I just execute from my console test applicaiton, I get the null pointer. I've verified all the information is being passed so I know that part is working. Very odd, but I have cludge work around. Still wondering what is wrong with the above code though.