statement: "how about MS allocating tuners for its timers" e.g. instead of setting them all on Auto (aka Tuner 4), set the 7pm recording on Tuner 1 and the 8pm recording on tuner 2? Then it is transparent to users...?

question: "can you specify tuners to use when calling the Toppy API, or does it always (and ONLY) use Tuner 4/Auto?"

I think that would mean a lot of coding on Bob behalf and would be eaiser to let the toppy set it. Maybe one of the team will have a different explination.

Yes this is what JAGs does.

I'm in the process of copying some programmes to VCR. If I use the native toppy archive, I can select several programmes using the Red key in the order that I want to "play" them, and then Press OK and they play out in sequence.

I've tried to do this using MS and the blue key to "Mark" a couple of programmes but when you play using either the OK or Play key only the first marked programme plays.

What I'd really like is this to work like Sky in that the Info screen is show for about 10 seconds and then the programme played out.

Is this possible in MS at the moment - or would it be possible to add this to your list of things to do?

Thanks

BTW Great Tap and lookng forward to NG.

Back to back recordings seems to come up often, I wonder if we can dream up some new easy way to make all the back to back issues go away?

As an aside this thread is far too long for a new user to usefully look through, couldn't it be closed and a new one started, perhaps with a summary sheet of important info from the old archived section?

Hi,

I took MyStuff into use and I am having the same problem with its archive display as Media Manager has. The beginning of the longer programme info is always cut from the beginning. For example, the following description from Toppy's native archive (sorry, in Finnish):

"Remotti-Reiska perehtyy illuusiomaalaukseen. Tapiola Espoossa - Suomen paras asuinalue? Vanhan hirsitalon peruskorjaus: ulkomaalaus.Toimittajat: Jorma Piisinen ja Katja Soini. Tuotanto: FCC Oy."

shows as

"? Vanhan hirsitalon peruskorjaus: ulkomaalaus.Toimittajat: Jorma Piisinen ja Katja Soini. Tuotanto: FCC Oy."

The other descriptions are cut in a similar way:

"us joutuu kovan valinnan eteen. Caesar puolestaan on nähnyt kirjoitukset seinillä ja alkaa huolestua Brusuken aikeista" instead of the correct "Tuomio. Epäonninen Titus Pullo on ajautunut alamaailman hämärähommiin. Tuomariksi ylennyt Lucus joutuu kovan valinnan eteen. Caesar puolestaan on nähnyt kirjoitukset seinillä ja alkaa huolestua Brusuken aikeista"

I am using TAPs Description Extender 1.6, MyStuff 4.54e, eit2mei 7.2, FastSkip. My Topfield model is 5100PVRc (Finnish cable) with firmware version March 06.

Hi Terje,

I would guess this is a problem with Description Extender if you are seeing it with MS and Media Manager. Maybe post in that thread and see if Simon can help? I'm just thinking is DescriptionExtender support on your Toppy model?

CW

4 Channel 4 19/11/2006 20:00 230 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
6 ITV2 11/11/2006 22:15 100 Johnny English
11 Sky Three 12/11/2006 20:00 60 Lost

That would be my next step - getting the recordings onto some mobile medium (phone or iPod) to listen in the car. What do you use to covert / listen to the recordings?

from: Juwlz

Firstly I am thinking of doing a mobile/wap interface - would you be willing to detect, parse and set timers for a file (preferablly in the same format as the epg uploaded one to keep it generic) as part of the MyStuff periodic reload. This would be easy for you to implement, should not have any side effects on other parts of MyStuff but would allow other projects like alternative interfaces etc to set timers easily without needing another tap.

Also...it would also be great to load an ExportList.txt file from Digiguide as part of the same process - at the moment this has to b e done manually from UK Timers. Here is an example of the file: