Chaninging Channel on stb using .exe (1 Viewer)

[RedDom]

For people like me who are using a set top box for cable or sattelite, it would be great to have a way to change channel by excecuting a batch file or excecutable. This would be useful for people using ir blasters not supported by the current MP plugins. for example in order to use my redrat3 channel changer i have to either use girder or execute a command line script which works great but not yet in MP.
see http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3471

thx

RD

 

[Anonymous]

If you have a .exe that runs a command line.. then do you have what you need?? If so then let me know what the command line needs to be and ill see what i can do.

 

[RedDom]

The command line will be different for different people depending on how they change channels. but mine is something like.

changechannel.exe -Channelno.

it should be configurable but allow people to pass in parameters for the channel to change to., and possibly deal with pre-pending 0 to short channel nums. e.g option of channelno=1 or channel no= 001.
both sagetv and showshifter have this option so it may worth taking a look at those.



thx

RD

 

[Anonymous]

I have written a Plugin todo exactly what you are asking for. On external channel change events it will execute any .exe or .bat with the external channel number appended as a parameter. It was meant to be integrate with the DTVCON utility for changing channels on primarily RCA DirectTV receivers, but is generic enough I think to do what you are asking. Please see: http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3986

Thanks,
901Racer

 

[RedDom]

Nice One.

RD