Way to set scheduled recordings from outside GBPVR

[groovyclam]

Is there ( or will there be in the future ? ) some way for an external app to schedule a recording in GBPVR

e.g. pass paramters such as:

Channel
Start Time
End Time
Output filename

maybe via a DOS command line or some other better method and GBPVR's scheduler will pick it up and add it to it's list of things to do.

I ask because in the UK we have a fantastically detailed and fully featured EPG app called DigiGuide which can do external calls and with some way to get GBPVR to pick up external schedule calls the two apps would make a perfect UK TV combo on a PC.

[sub]

I'm fairly sure people have done this in the past. If you google "DigiGuide GBPVR" you should fine some web pages out there discussing it.

[groovyclam]

Hi Sub - Googling it seems that if I wrote appropriate rows to the "recording_schedule" table in the gbpvr.db3 file then I may get what I need.

Would this approach work ? Would your scheduler pick up rows I inserted manually ?

If you confirm this, then I will just need to construct a widget that DigiGuide can execute that interfaces with gbpvr.db3 via some sort of SQLite which I think I can do.

Thanks for the pointer.

[sub]

Would this approach work ? Would your scheduler pick up rows I inserted manually

Yes, but if you want to make sure it'll notice immediately you may need to run "pvrx2.exe -OnlyUpdateEPG" after inserting the row.

[groovyclam]

Thanks for the info sub

[NumberFive]

Oh, I'd love to get instructions on how to do this too. An .exe for doing the job would be amazing, but even if I had to do it manually I'd love any info available.

I'm still working on the SMS to GBPVR thing. Thus far I have a programme downloading data from a free SMS to Email gateway.

[systemshark]

Personally what I'd really like is to export the DigiGuide Data into XML and send the whole thing to GBPVR... Swapping programs between GBPVR and Digiuide is something which is not suited to a remote controlled system (Haupppauge remote) and has failed 'the wife test'....

I have seen a VB script program which extracts from digiguide but the author has encrypted it so it's not possible to see the code... and I'm not finding any thing to get into learning the Digiguide API.

[groovyclam]

I'm extremely familiar with the DigiGuide API and can guarantee that if I can get the writing to the GBPVR SQL database working then everything will "work" rather fantastically.

I've had a root around in sub's gbpvr database and understand the layout of that, and I also happen to be good at SQL so no problems there.

My problem hits when I try to construct this in C++ as I'm a total C++ novice.

I'm trying to do this in Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008 and am cribbing code from lots of Googled pages.

So far I have my command line inputs accepted OK but thought I'd better do a quick test that I can open the GBPVR database from my C++ widget whilst GBPVR is running. First major problem: when I transfer my widget exe from the development machine to the Home Theatre the widget won't run due to some missing dll's which I could swear are on the Home Theatre.

If anyone is a Visuall C++ Express 2008 wizard please shout as I am having a really hard time getting to the bottom of the problem.

Really frustrating since coding isn't the problem but actually distributing the exe ( which shouldn't be this bloody hard ! )

[groovyclam]

As a bonus this widget won't be specific to DigiGuide it will work for anything that can run a DOS command.

The syntax is shaping up to be:

widget <path to gbpvr db file> <total num of gbpvr recording sources in this setup> <recording filename> <channel number> <programme starttime> <programme endtime> <prepad mins> <endpad mins>

The widget will query the existing GBPVR recording schedule and if there is a free recording source available at the time it will set the recording event.

If all GBPVR recording sources are busy for that time then an error will result.

[systemshark]

I'm extremely familiar with the DigiGuide API and can guarantee that if I can get the writing to the GBPVR SQL database working then everything will "work" rather fantastically.

I've had a root around in sub's gbpvr database and understand the layout of that, and I also happen to be good at SQL so no problems there.

My problem hits when I try to construct this in C++ as I'm a total C++ novice.

I'm trying to do this in Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008 and am cribbing code from lots of Googled pages.

So far I have my command line inputs accepted OK but thought I'd better do a quick test that I can open the GBPVR database from my C++ widget whilst GBPVR is running. First major problem: when I transfer my widget exe from the development machine to the Home Theatre the widget won't run due to some missing dll's which I could swear are on the Home Theatre.

If anyone is a Visuall C++ Express 2008 wizard please shout as I am having a really hard time getting to the bottom of the problem.

Really frustrating since coding isn't the problem but actually distributing the exe ( which shouldn't be this bloody hard ! )

Right, Fancy a deal.... ... I've getting good at accessing the GBPVR Database, you don't need C++, as I can give you module in C# or Vb.NET which handles the code for GBPVR end of the problem...

My end of the deal.. can you extract ALL the program and channel info from DigiGuide so I can load it into the EPG of GBPVR.