The Interactive TV Guide How-To Written by cruent 2005

1. Setup of the XMLTV application 1.1 How to get the XMLTV application Download from here: (current version 0.5.39) http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv 1.2 Unpak the XMLTV application Extract to any directory on your workstation 1.3 Configure the XMLTV application Configure the XMLTV application to use the grabber for your country. Table 1. Currently supported country grabbers are listed below(version 0.5.39): Country Grabber United Kingdom tv_grab_uk_rt Canada and United States tv_grab_na_dd, tv_grab_na Germany tv_grab_de_tvtoday New Zealand tv_grab_nz Finland tv_grab_fi Italy tv_grab_it Spain tv_grab_es, tv_grab_es_digital Netherlands tv_grab_nl, tv_grab_nl_wolf Denmark tv_grab_dk Hungary and Romania tv_grab_huro Japan tv_grab_jp Sweden tv_grab_se France tv_grab_fr Norway tv_grab_no Portugal tv_grab_pt Choose the channels you wish to grab. Run: "xmltv.exe tv_grab_dk --configure" 1.4 Getting the listings for your channels Keep the listings to one day, it's smaller in size, faster to upload/download and faster to navigate in the tv guide. Run: "xmltv.exe tv_grab_dk --days 1 --output listing.xml" Wait for it to finish, it takes a while... Step 1 done.

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2. Setup of the TV Guide python script 2.1 Extract and upload the Tv Guide script to your XBMC scripts directory Extract the package and upload the following files: tvguide.py XBMC\scripts\tvguide.py tvguide\ XBMC\scripts\tvguide\ tvguide\background.png XBMC\scripts\tvguide\background.png tvguide\showbox.png XBMC\scripts\tvguide\showbox.png tvguide\timeline.png XBMC\scripts\tvguide\timeline.png tvguide\listing\ XBMC\scripts\tvguide\listing\ tvguide\listing\listing.xml XBMC\scripts\tvguide\listing\listing.xml 2.2 Upload the listing.xml file to your XBMC scripts directory Upload the new listing.xml file created by the XMLTV application from your workstation to your xbox and overwrite the dummy file. xmltv\listing.xml XBMC\scripts\tvguide\listing\listing.xml 2.3 Settings for the Tv Guide script Edit the XBMC\scripts\tvguide.py script and search for “### Config settings”. If you want sorted channels in the Tv Guide, change the sorted value to true, or if not keep it default to false. sorted = “false” If you don’t want an overlapped timeline to show your xbox time, change the timeline value to false, or keep it to default true. timeline = "true" If you want automatic download of the listing.xml, change the downloadsupport value to http or ftp (remember to change the httpurl or the ftpurl) and if not keep the default none. downloadsupport = "none" If http support is wanted, you need to change the httpurl to the http service path with the listing.xml. httpurl = "http://192.168.1.2:80/listing.xml" If ftp support is wanted, you need to change the ftpurl to the ftp service path with the listing.xml. ftpurl = "ftp://xbox:tvguide@192.168.1.2:21/listing.xml" Remember to save your changes. Step 2 done.

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3. Controls in the TV Guide python script Table 2. Current controls in the TV Guide script. Control (remote/controller) Description Left/Dpad Left Go 30 mins backward Right/Dpad Right Go 30 mins forward -/Left trigger Go 30 mins backward -/Right trigger Go 30 mins forward Up/Dpad Up Go one channel up Down/Dpad Down Go one channel down Select/’A’ Show description from the selected show Back/’B’ Goto current time/Return from description Menu/Back Exit Now go and enjoy the TV Guide script in XBMC. Cheers /cruent

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4. Hint – Change the channel order You can modify the XMLTV application config file (.xmltv\tv_grab_xx.conf) file to grab the listings in the order you want them shown in the TV Guide, like this: From: (snip only)

channel 005 3+ channel 006 TV3 channel 007 Kanal 5 channel 008 Tv Danmark

To: (snip only)

channel 005 3+ channel 008 Tv Danmark channel 007 Kanal 5 channel 006 TV3

Remember to set the sorted value to false in the XBMC\scripts\tvguide.py under "### Config settings", so it keeps the right channel order. 5. Hint – Add the TV Guide in the Submenu for faster access Modify XBMC\skin\Project Mayhem III\Pal\DialogSubMenu.xml (this is for Pal users!) Find the next empty control for the submenu: <control> <description>SubMenu button</description> <visible>no</visible> <type>button</type> <execute>q:\scripts\-.py</execute> <id>XXXX</id> <label>-</label> Change it to: <control> <description>SubMenu button</description> <visible>yes</visible> <type>button</type> <execute>q:\scripts\tvguide.py</execute> <id>XXXX</id> <label>TV Guide</label> XXXX is the id number, just leave it and remember to set the visible to yes. 6. Hint - Automatic download from PC /w listing.xml to XBMC Make a batch file on the PC /w listing.xml in the XMLTV directory. @ECHO OFF ECHO XML TV Guide setup by cruent ECHO Configure the channels, remove the REM on the next line(use your own grabber country) REM xmltv.exe tv_grab_dk --configure ECHO Getting the listings for today xmltv.exe tv_grab_dk --days 1 --output listing.xml Make it run every day or at pc boot time to get new listings each day. Copy the listing.xml file to a web/ftp service path with list/read rights atleast (You can also put this in the batch file). Configure the tvguide.py script under "### Config settings" to use the correct ftp/http url.

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7. Hint - Automatic upload from PC /w listing.xml to XBMC Just append this to the above batch file and make sure your Xbox is online. ECHO Upload listing.xml to the XBOX > script.ftp ECHO open 192.168.1.2 21 >>script.ftp ECHO xbox >>script.ftp ECHO xbox >>script.ftp ECHO cd /f >>script.ftp ECHO cd /f: >>script.ftp ECHO cd Apps\xbmc\scripts\tvguide\listing >>script.ftp ECHO binary >>script.ftp ECHO prompt n >>script.ftp ECHO put listing.xml >>script.ftp ECHO bye REM Use the temporary script for unattended FTP FTP -s:script.ftp REM For the paranoid: overwrite the temporary file before deleting it TYPE NUL >script.ftp DEL script.ftp Change the 192.168.1.2 to your XBOX ip address and the f: Apps\xbmc\scripts\tvguide\listing. Configure the tvguide.py script under "### Config settings" to use the downloadsupport value set to none.

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