Using Smart EPG on Australian Model TMS

[Referee]

I realised that Firebird, but wait he/she had another idea:

Eventually I think maybe it (SE) could check and see what machine it was installed on, and automatically hide options that aren't relevant He/she was referring to the .lng file and making .ini changes through the menu page/s I guess.

I for one am more than happy with the team's (the 5) efforts at providing such a useful tool for my machine/s.

You all deserve a great and a few .

[Ricki]

Firebird=he

[FireBird]

Mike meant the Australian forum user.

[Ricki]

Mike meant the Australian forum user.

OK, I ovelooked this, still nice talking, ahh writing to you in english

[Referee]

Christmas and New Year Greetings to the 5 from all Oz users of SmartEPG.

Thanks for all your efforts to develop and support SE for users here in Australia.

[Twilight]

merry christmas and a happy new year to all australian users too

twilight

[JayTee]

me too

merry christmas and a happy new year to all users from downunder.

[FireBird]

Thanks Mike, and the same back to you and the Australian users. And a special thanks to you for your support in the iTopfield forum and your endless effort to collect logos and channel IDs.

[keith_leitch]

I am an English-only user in Australia. I am so hopeless with other languages that, even with the help of babelfish.com, I have been unsuccessful in posting. This may be because I signed up incorrectly, or because I can't tell what the buttons mean; it is hard to say which.

I am hoping that someone can help to answer the following questions:

MANUAL: I have a manual in English, but it is for v4, so missing some features of v5. It is also lacking some detail.

SUBTITLES: Activating SmartEPG seems to set subtitles on by default. Is this a setting or a bug?

TIMERS: What is the difference between "everything," "series," and "series repeats on same channel"?

CHANNEL NUMBERS: How do I assign logical channel numbers to match The station IDs that the Topfield (and other devices) assign to each station? At the moment, anything related to SmartEPG is, for example, identifying Eleven as being on channel 9, because that is where it appears sequentially. However, I switch to the same station by typing "11". I would like them to match. I tried changing a setting (though I cannot recall which one) between "channel number" and "LCN," but it seemed to make no difference.

LOGOS: What format, folder and filename do I use to make channel logos in PNG or JPG appear in the lists?

RECORDING FILENAMES: I am using the Title+Date option, which is great, but it seems to insert some characters from the extended set between the title and time. I would like to get rid of these. This happens regardless of whether I set the TAP to remove non-compliant characters, such as colons and commas.

[Referee]

keith_leitch is trying to register and ask questions about SmartEPG
Cheers

[Töppi]

Hi,
now the posting is visible.....

[Referee]

I am hoping that someone can help to answer the following questions: ...
LOGOS: What format, folder and filename do I use to make channel logos in PNG or JPG appear in the lists?

Hi Keith,
The logos in SE are in a special format and come preconfigured for the Oz services. Basically they are in two "styles" a black background or a white one. SE's menu allows you to set either one "style" or the other. Not a mixture.

The Logo installer package takes care of all the folder creation and the Logos for you.

This should reassure you that youir questions are being answered.

[FireBird]

Hi Keith,

MANUAL: I have a manual in English, but it is for v4, so missing some features of v5. It is also lacking some detail.

From a user?s point of view, there are no big changes between the latest V4 and the current V5. While we know that not everything is covered, please tell us what you?re missing so that we can check if it is already on our TODO list.

SUBTITLES: Activating SmartEPG seems to set subtitles on by default. Is this a setting or a bug?

I?ve never heard about that. Did you check that both ?1st subtitle language? and ?Hard of hearing? are set to off?

TIMERS: What is the difference between "everything," "series," and "series repeats on same channel"?

There was a nice explanation in the AUS forum. Mike, you didn?t save these posts?

CHANNEL NUMBERS: How do I assign logical channel numbers to match The station IDs that the Topfield (and other devices) assign to each station? At the moment, anything related to SmartEPG is, for example, identifying Eleven as being on channel 9, because that is where it appears sequentially. However, I switch to the same station by typing "11". I would like them to match. I tried changing a setting (though I cannot recall which one) between "channel number" and "LCN," but it seemed to make no difference.

I?m not sure if I understand you correctly. If you set the Look&Feel menu item 3 (Channel sorting) to ?LCN?, SE should display all channels in the same order as they appear in the Toppy?s native channel list. But as I do not have LCNs on my sat machine, it?s a bit hard to follow. Maybe you can provide a screenshot.

RECORDING FILENAMES: I am using the Title+Date option, which is great, but it seems to insert some characters from the extended set between the title and time. I would like to get rid of these. This happens regardless of whether I set the TAP to remove non-compliant characters, such as colons and commas.

Another strange behaviour, which hasn?t been mentioned in the past. Do you see these characters in the Toppy?s native timer menu? Does this happen with specific channels? Time for another screenshot?

[Referee]

Hi Keith,

There was a nice explanation in the AUS forum. Mike, you didn?t save these posts?

Hi Firebird,

Yes I realised that it was there, but no I did not save it/them. The Oz forum has been down for at least a month and maybe? for even a couple more weeks?

If it does come back I hope that all your responses are there and I will try to do that.

Even though the forum is missing there are a few people who have been directed via posts in other forum to try SE.

I did start an FAQ of all your emails to me or responses on the Forum, but I never got round to keeping it up to date....

So you can expect a few further questions in the short term.

Cheers

Mike
PS I look forward to the Champions League matches this week to watch two great sides, BM and BD. Hope they can win their respective ties.

[Isarwolf]

PS I look forward to the Champions League matches this week to watch two great sides, BM and BD. Hope they can win their respective ties.

Thank you that you are crossing the fingers (Daumen drücken) for BM and BD. :

Gruß

Hannes

[keith_leitch]

Hi Keith,
The logos in SE are in a special format and come preconfigured for the Oz services. Basically they are in two "styles" a black background or a white one. SE's menu allows you to set either one "style" or the other. Not a mixture.

The Logo installer package takes care of all the folder creation and the Logos for you.

This should reassure you that youir questions are being answered.

Yes, thanks; I found your logo installer, and it is working. Some of our local Gold Coast station names are different from the standards, but I assume I can just edit them in the LIL file. I will play with this.

[keith_leitch]

Hi Keith,

From a user?s point of view, there are no big changes between the latest V4 and the current V5. While we know that not everything is covered, please tell us what you?re missing so that we can check if it is already on our TODO list.

My mistake. The only manual I have is for version 2.6. Is there a later edition in English?

I?ve never heard about that. Did you check that both ?1st subtitle language? and ?Hard of hearing? are set to off?

Again, my mistake. It turns out that it is the firmware I installed at the same time that is causing this. Still, if anyone knows how to defeat it (without changing firmware again) that would be nice...

I?m not sure if I understand you correctly. If you set the Look&Feel menu item 3 (Channel sorting) to ?LCN?, SE should display all channels in the same order as they appear in the Toppy?s native channel list. But as I do not have LCNs on my sat machine, it?s a bit hard to follow. Maybe you can provide a screenshot.

The order of the stations is the same as the native list. However, the NUMBERS are different. For example, my stations, natively, skip channel 4; SBS is logical channel 3, and Southern Cross TEN is the next one up at channel 5. In other words, there is no channel 4 in the list. I did not set them up this way; this is the default that the broadcasters transmit.

However, SmartEPG scans Southern Cross TEN as the station one up from 3, so numbers it as channel 4. This shifts all the others all the way up the list, and there are lots of other gaps making it worse.

When I switch channels in TV mode, I type, for example "11," and the infobox shows that I have switched to channel 11. However, when I set up a recording reservation, the same station shows as 10. This is a bit confusing (though moreso for my wife than for me).

Another strange behaviour, which hasn?t been mentioned in the past. Do you see these characters in the Toppy?s native timer menu? Does this happen with specific channels? Time for another screenshot?

It happens on every recording, from every station. It is visible in the native timer menu, in the infobox while recording, and even across an FTP transfer (though the character set is different on the PC).

For example, my recording of Supernatural on April 29 shows up as:

"SupernaturalÂöû<2013-04-29 20-34.mpg"

(though the inserted characters are different when viewed on the Topfield).

By the way, I thought I saw a setting to take out the dashes and just use YYYYMMDDHHMM, but I cannot find it again. Does that exist?

Thanks for all the help.

[FireBird]

The only manual I have is for version 2.6. Is there a later edition in English?

Oops, you're right. Nobody has translated the 4.x manual, the English version is still for V2.6. ops:

It turns out that it is the firmware I installed at the same time that is causing this. Still, if anyone knows how to defeat it (without changing firmware again) that would be nice...

I do not have other ideas. If deactivating both settings doesn't help, I'm afraid that you're out of luck. Unfortunately I’m not aware of the bugs of the Aussie Toppies and their work-arounds.

It happens on every recording, from every station. It is visible in the native timer menu, in the infobox while recording, and even across an FTP transfer (though the character set is different on the PC).

For example, my recording of Supernatural on April 29 shows up as:

"SupernaturalÂöû<2013-04-29 20-34.mpg"

These characters remind me of the UTF-8 encoding. I hope I didn’t miss it: what machine and which firmware (date or, even better, a link to it) are you using?

By the way, I thought I saw a setting to take out the dashes and just use YYYYMMDDHHMM, but I cannot find it again. Does that exist?

There is no such option in the menu, but you can edit the SmartEPG_TMS.ini parameter “NameSepChar”. Check the dash with a hex editor. Maybe it is the soft hyphen (0xad) instead of the dash (0x2d)?

[Referee]

Oops, you're right. Nobody has translated the 4.x manual, the English version is still for V2.6. ops:

These characters remind me of the UTF-8 encoding. I hope I didn?t miss it: what machine and which firmware (date or, even better, a link to it) are you using?

Hi Firbird,

Keith's machine is a 7160 and here is a link to his Oct 2011 firmware.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/319 ... 00_Dev.tfd

As to the V4 Guide, I must get back to that and see if Franz is still available to do a translation. If not I might have another source for help.
or

[keith_leitch]

[quote="FireBird"]There is no such option in the menu, but you can edit the SmartEPG_TMS.ini parameter “NameSepChar”. Check the dash with a hex editor. Maybe it is the soft hyphen (0xad) instead of the dash (0x2d)?[/quote]

My INI file only reads:

MaxPending=1
BufferSize=65535
Port=1417
SpeechServerIP=192.168.0.1
SpeechServerPort=22222


I entered one myself, and set it to a dash. There was no change, so, it does not seem to explain the special characters appearing right after the filename.