Hello, in my frustration with the lack of good software besides Myth that can handle ivtv (Hauppage), I created a simple Python script to change channels.
This works great when coupled with a Mplayer+LIRC solution, or your favorite MPEG2 player. Although I have tried XawTV CVS, and while its progress, its GUI is still far away from being a good solution for a TV watching application. Not to mention it does not support Lirc natively as far as I know. Until tvtime supports ivtv, we are stuck with this. Anyhow, the script requires Python 2.4, and does handle changing channels (up/down), and setting channels (i.e push 4 then 5, to change to channel 45). It uses ivtv-tune and ivtvctl, matching the frequencies to the frequency table. I have tried it on us-cable and it works fine, but if it does not work on your frequency table, please read my comments in the code. I would love input from the developers into why ivtv-tune does not have an option to get the current set channel (that would solve a lot of problems). Yes, I have tried v4l-info, and it does not display the currently tuned channel. The inner-workings of the scripts are thoroughly documented in the head for the developers to analyze if they wish. Anyhow, the script includes an example into integrating it with your ~/.lircrc. I do hope this script or an equivalent one gets included at least as an optional add-on to ivtv. I would also like the input of the community into how and where I should post this in the Wiki. Thank you, and I hope my script helps and please *DO* feel free to modify it and tell me about it. Download (2 mirrors): http://usuarios.lycos.es/cgarcia2003/ivtv-channel.py http://www.jardinpresente.com.ar/archivos/scripts/ivtv-channel.py -- Marc _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
