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A plugin that can tell you the satellite name?

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:07 pm
by petasis
Hi all,

I am missing some functionality :)
I have a switch with many satellites. Is there a way to somehow scan all switch's inputs, and give me a list of the satellite name in each input?

I think writting such a module should not be too difficult. So, is there API that can do the following:

1) Switch to a specific diseqc 1.0/1.1 position
2) Tune to a specific transpoder with all the details (Freq, V/H, etc.)
3) Get the signal % & channel names of the transpoder

Is there a desription of the API some where? (The function names/arguments should be enough)...

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:15 pm
by petasis
I have made the first step:
I have created a plugin, which starts a new thread and displays a GUI :D

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:26 pm
by petasis
And here is the very first screenshot of the plugin in action!

http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/nova/DVBTcl-0.1-1.png

Actually, the plugin embeds a scripting language (Tcl/Tk - this has a graphical interface), and this allows me to code the plugin in Tcl :shock:
How cool is that?

For the time being, the code that starts Tcl/Tk (and its console) is ready, along with some preliminary GUI, and the code that retrieves all satellite/traspoder/channel insformation from king of sat.
The only elements missing is to tune progdvb into a transpoder and get the found channel names :D