For those using PVR-XXX

[Kevin Downey]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Jeff <jeff at doeshosting.com> wrote:
> I made a lil script to help me be lazier while changing channels.  I do not have a remote anymore, so I must do it at console.  In case anyone is going to make something similar for themselves, here is mine so you do not need to:
>
> it expects a file in the same dir named chaninput containing only the following:
> <channel number>  <frequency>
> for example:
> 2 55.25
> 3 61.25
> 4 67.25
>
>
> the script is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> start=`head -n1 chaninput|awk '{print $1}'`
> finish=`tail -n1 chaninput|awk '{print $1}'`
> echo "echo \"What channel do you want?\" " > channel-change.sh
> echo "echo \"Please choose a number between $start and ${finish}\" " >>channel-change.sh
> echo "read chan" >> channel-change.sh
> echo "case \$chan in" >> channel-change.sh
> for i in `cat chaninput|awk '{print $1}'`
> do
>        echo "  ${i}) " >>channel-change.sh
>        freq=`grep -w -e ^${i} chaninput|awk '{print $2}'` >>channel-change.sh
>        echo "  pvr250-setchannel $freq " >>channel-change.sh
>        echo "  ;; " >>channel-change.sh
> done
>        echo "esac" >>channel-change.sh
> chmod +x channel-change.sh
>
>
> It then outputs a script named channel-change.sh which is ready to change channels for you.
> I did not make this for real public release, mainly because it is so simple, but I figure maybe someone besides myself would get use from it.
>
> -krzee
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channel(){
    /usr/local/bin/pvr250-setchannel `egrep \^$1\  $HOME/cable.txt|cut
-f 2 -d \ `
}

where cable.txt is a list of channels and freqs. I think I got mine
off wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_cable_television_frequencies

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