TMSTimer

Originally posted by headspin AWESOME TAP! Just one request, please: When it first opens up, the first timer should be highlighted, instead of needing to press down. If you page across to the second or later pages the top timer is highlighted, so it should be on the first page.

Will do.

Originally posted by Starionx Any chance of expanding the Activation keys? I'd like to be able to use ANY key available.

Yes, this can be done. I have limited it to things that won't interfere with normal operation, but seeing as you have asked nicely... expect it soon.

Originally posted by deangelj   Or a "TMS Commander option"

It is fully TMS commander compatible I think John - in TMS Commander pressing menu will open the TAP and pressing exit will stop the tap. Let me know if you were thinking of something else - when you get back this weekend you can give it a try.

I'm currently working on doing an auto fix for bad SBS program names. Once I have that working I'll release an update, but haven't done anything on it this week - been snowed.

Originally posted by deangelj Originally posted by JaffaMan Originally posted by deangelj   Or a "TMS Commander option" It is fully TMS commander compatible I think John - in TMS Commander pressing menu will open the TAP and pressing exit will stop the tap. Let me know if you were thinking of something else - when you get back this weekend you can give it a try.   What I mean Jeff is when you allow the user to pick the config key, have a "key" called "TMSCommander" - if selected this means that no key is taken up to bring up the menu, and it can only be brought up via TMSCommander.

Doh - Got it - good idea John. I'll add it in.

New release - v1.02 26 June 2010

Added:

• auto-select first line of the timer list (request from headspin)
  
• recognition of SRP-2100 and SRP-2400 models
• more keys as choices for the activation key (request from Starionx)
  
• TMSCommander is now a valid activation key choice - if selected no remote key is assigned, and essentially it will not be able to be activated except from TMSCommander (thanks to idea from deanglej)
  
• RED now saves the configuration as well as Record (to overcome issue noted by bc)
  
• and an SBS EPG Character fix

The SBS EPG Character fix will scan all timers everytime the timer screen is displayed, and if it finds a timer with an unprintable character in the first position of the name (which is common on SBS shows in Australia), it will automatically remove this character and fix the timer name. If you leave this option set to OFF, a small red # will be displayed for timers with this bad character, but the timer will not be touched.

Interestingly the TAP uses a Timer_Modify call to do this, and not a Timer_Delete followed by a Timer_Add. As a consequence, TimerDiags doesn't seem to track the change, but it does work.

I should add, I am still working on:
- editing timers. Now I have the EPG fix running and it is changing timers, the editing is mostly covered - just doing the work to handle the screen - hopefully some time soon.
- extending the SBS EPG character fix to a general Make PC Safe Names option, which will automatically strip all timer names of : / and other PC un-friendly characters.
- plan to add direct call to AutoSched and JustEPG so they can be called from within the timer list screen.

Any other suggestions welcome.


Edited by JaffaMan - 26/Jun/2010 at 11:20pm

Hi JaffaMan,

Originally posted by gconlon Hi JaffaMan, Are you planning to allow editing of timers in future releases, so we can ignore the standard reservations screen all together?

As Robert says, yes - I have it half working at the moment, but am not including it in the release version yet until it is right.

In my version at the moment pressing OK brings up a screen with all the timer details. I can currently change recording type from rec to play, edit names, change services, select TV /Radio. Still working on changing time, duration and event type (weekly etc) but that shouldn't be too hard.

It's all a bit slow for me - the taps are written in C, a language I am not versed in, so things I would normally be able to just do take me forever to figure out - just stripping out the first char of bad SBS programs took ages to work out how to do it - in the languages I am more familiar with that would have been a 1 minute job. Still, I guess I'm learning a new language as I go.