So, with all of that said (sorry), how exactly does your USB-UIRT interact with software to handle switching the channels on your Samsung box?
GBPVR allows the use of external channel changer programs, and external recorder programs.
I have three capture sources defined in GBPVR: Analog broadcast, Digital Broadcast, and Webcast.
Analog: Uses
zap2it for program guide information, line up has only local analog stations in it.
-Records from the PVR-150 analog tuner directly.
-Channel changer is GBPVRs built-in USB-UIRT tuner, which sends commands to the rotator. (rotator is has presets programmed for the best position for each station
Digital: Uses a different Zap2it lineup, with only digital stations listed.
- Records from PVR-150, but from the s-video port instead of the tuner.
- Channel changer is a bit tricky...
Channel numbers are settable in GBPVR, so Iv'e set new channel numbers to include the sub channels, i.e. channel 52-1 is numbered 521, 52-2 is 522, etc.
Channel changer is set to an external program, csevent.exe, which creates a system event that triggers Girder. The event is named GB-521, or GB-522, or whatever the channel number is.
Girder is running in the background, waiting for events. When Girder sees event GB-522 for instance, it tells the USB-UIRT to transmit "52" to the rotator, and then transmit "52" to the SIR-T150 Digital Reciever, then Transmit "^" to the digital receiver (since "^" is the only way to access sub-channel 2).
WebCast: HAs no Program guide, (yet)
(no channel changer required)
Using another External recorder, and a plugin, I get a variety of Streaming video channels on my TV. Too complex to describe from memory...
So for instance, I am browsing the channel guide on the software that came with the PVR-150, and i tell it to record 24 on Monday night, will the PVR software talk to the USB-UIRT box and tell it to change the channel on the Samsung hdtv box at the correct time?
Like miller posted, it has to do with the software. Mine works just like you imagine..at 1 minute before 12:00 midnight every night, the antenna swings west, the set top box tunes to the channel I want, and the recorder records "Charlie Rose". If you want "24", just highlight it in the program guide (or have GBPVR search for it), and tell it to record. Just Once, Daily, weekly, or every time "24" is broadcast.
If that is a correct interpretation of what you are doing, is there any additional software i have to purchase in order to just make the PVR program switch channels on the hdtv box at the scheduled record time?
I purchased Girder, only because of the additional complexity the antenna rotator gave me. There is Freeware called HIP that may be able to do what you need.
GBPVR is free (as in beer
)
