Diguide

[Deadslow]

Hi,

I’ve started this as a separate thread as the two Digiguide threads here already are rather long. I have dusted down Tivo 3 to see whether this can be used successfully unsubbed (I am one of the 2 Tivos, monthly subbed, for 5 years or so types).

From my reading of the other threads, Digiguide with manrec can be used to set up manual recordings. However, is it better to subscribe to MyDigiuide or Digiguide? If I understood it correctly, I saw that channelmap can be avoided if MyDigiguide is used. Is that correct? Is there another (legitimate) method of setting recordings?

Cheers.

[ColinYounger]

I'm sure others will pop in here with their experiences, but here's mine. I have MyDigiGuide.

Pros:

I can use it wherever as it's a web page.
Using the TivoWeb module is not quite as hard (although tweaks still have to be made).

Cons:

Can't book recordings from the DigiGuide web page (you need their software to do that, and a hack available on these forums)

[cwaring]

My DG hack (right-click 'record this...' etc.) hasn't worked for a while and I have no idea why. I did ask in the relevant thread but never got a reply :( However, when it works it's fantastic!

[RichardJH]

My DG hack (right-click 'record this...' etc.) hasn't worked for a while and I have no idea why

Carl what error are you getting and is it the PC based digiguide

[ColinYounger]

From the other thread, I'm guessing"ERROR: Not Enough Parameters!" when he's right-clicking.

That post was at the start of August last year, so you've got to give him credit for patience. :)

[cwaring]

Hehe! Yes, that's the one. Thanks Colin:)

No other message or error-string/code and yes, it's the PC-based version. The silly thing is, it just stopped working for some reason and I have no idea what why! I mean, the IP is correct and there's nothing else to it, as far as I can remember.

[RichardJH]

I had a problem with it on one of my Tivos and in the end decided to remove it all from both the Tivo and the programfiles/digiguide folder on the PC and do a re-install from scratch and it all worked. I guess a corrupted file somewhere. I guess its worth a go.

[cwaring]

Sounds like a plan. Will get to it sometime this week.

[RichardJH]

Let us know how you get on

[cwaring]

Well that did the trick, somehow :D

It's possible that I might have caused the problem by not copying over all the necessary files but I can't confirm that for two reasons.

1. I may have deleted all the relevant files just now, including the one I thought I hadn't copied, without seeing that it was actually there; but it certainly wasn't in my bin.

and

2. It would be just too embarrasing :o;):D

[RichardJH]

Well done. Don't be embarrassed note that I couldn't answer why it happened to me either only how I got round it :o :p

[Deadslow]

Sorry to bring this to life again! I went for Digiguide and am using manrec embedded in TWP2. This is the message I get when I try to set up a recording:

Creating Recording... Done.

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_manrec '' 'set "titlestr" "ITV News\; Weather";set "descriptionstr" "The latest national and international ne";set "chnsel" "3";set "wodatetz" "1182211200";set "wotimetz" "22";set "womin" "37";set "durationstr" "23";set "ratingstr" "1";set "recqual" "100";set "forcerecord" "0";set "repeat" "once";set "submit" "Record";'
can't open object (0x00011007)

while executing
"db $db openid $chnsel"
("uplevel" body line 63)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {
puts $chan "Creating Recording..."

set recording [ db $db create Recording ]
create_RecordingDRM $recording
dbobj $recording set B..."
(procedure "create_manual_todo_recording" line 14)
invoked from within
"create_manual_todo_recording $chan $timeArray $chnsel $titlestr $episodestr $descriptionstr $ratingstr $programSource $recqual $keepdays $createSP"
(procedure "MOD::action_manrec" line 313)
invoked from within
"$cmd $p1 $p2 $p3"
(procedure "do_action" line 19)
invoked from within
"do_action $action $chan $part $env 1"
--cut here--


I have no idea what to tweak this to get it working. Can anyone help?

[ColinYounger]

At a guess, Tivoweb can't find the channel for this program - is it in the list of received channels on your TiVo?

[Deadslow]

I would have thought so, but it has given me a thought. I set up Digiguide with Freeview. However, the Tivo is connected to a Sky box. Perhaps all the channel ids are different? I can presumably set up Digiguide again with Sky and see if that works. Cheers.

[Deadslow]

Nope. Same message. Has to be something to do with channels. I shall keep digging.

[Deadslow]

For anyone interested, I'm getting closer but...

I have used the chan_map file and the internal server error no longer comes up. Lights flash on the Tivo but the recording light does not come on. Manrec hangs and Digiguide then falls over. I have had to remove it and reinstall it to get it going again. Shall we just say that something is not quite right...

Is there an easier way of using an unsubbed Tivo?