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    #16
    That would be perfect - it'll take me a couple of days to try it though, back to work tomorrow

    Look forward to trying it out

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      #17
      Email sent!
      Jon

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        #18
        Last edited by jon00; November 15, 2012, 06:55 PM.

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          #19
          Just downloaded and installed the updated version - seems to be running quite happily with 2 Sky boxes connected (waiting on a serial cable for the 3rd). Only comment I'd make is that with log entries turned on I see a lot of duplication in the updates - Updates seem to have partial program descriptions and repeat until the string is complete, I'm guessing it's something to do with the timing of the XML stream ?

          16/11/2012 07:56:06 - Jon00_Skybox - Program details: The Sp
          16/11/2012 07:56:06 - Jon00_Skybox - Program details: The Speedy Sailfish: Animated deep sea adventures with Captain Barnacles and his explorers. Barnacles and Kwazii use some speedy sailfish to round up all the Gu
          16/11/2012 07:56:06 - Jon00_Skybox - Program details: The Speedy Sailfish: Animated deep sea adventures with Captain Barnacles and his explorers. Barnacles and Kwazii use some speedy sailfish to round up all the Gups. [AD,S]
          There's also some special characters that appear in the program title sometimes e.g.
          16/11/2012 07:52:07 - Jon00_Skybox - Program title: ?Chris Evans?
          Not a big deal but would be nice to have them parsed out

          Thanks
          Kevin

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            #20
            Hi Kevin,

            The data coming out of the Sky box serial port has to be fed into a buffer as there is no consistancy with the output. I'll take a look to see if I can improve on monitoring the packet length to stop this happening.

            As for the strange characters, did you happen to notice what was displayed on the screen?
            Jon

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              #21
              I'm wondering if the strange characters are due to the different Sky boxes, here's the output for the Sky HD box:
              16/11/2012 14:25:39 - Jon00_Skybox - Program title: Steve Wright in the Afternoon
              But from the multiroom box I get:
              16/11/2012 14:26:19 - Jon00_Skybox - Program title: ?Steve Wright in the Afternoon?
              The Sky HD is the Sky branded Amstrad DRX890 and the multiroom box is a Pace 440N.

              Get exactly the same text on the TV screen from both boxes.

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                #22
                Version 0.81 is now available.

                Added experimental boot/reboot flag.
                No Poll off timer.
                Program title filtering.
                Internal changes and bug fixes.
                Jon

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                  #23
                  Running the updated version quite nicely - The strange characters have been eliminated and all seems pretty robust. Need to install another serial card for the 3rd box as it seems 10 serial ports aren't enough

                  Kevin

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                    #24
                    Still running fine with 3 Sky boxes - I've also dug out an ancient Dusky control box I've had in a drawer for years, I suspect it uses the older Binary protocol (Just emailed them to find out). Any suggestions how to use it ? I could figure out how to script to open a com port and send some ASCII but no idea how to deal with Binary/Hex.

                    Thanks
                    Kevin

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                      #25
                      Obviously it depends on the protocol but sending Hex to a com port is not that difficult. Take a look at this thread.
                      Jon

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