Bouquets downloadable via Plugin or Script

[SGTFlipFlop]

Is it possible too write a separate Plugin / Script to automatically download the up-to-date bouquets same way as we download the EPG for example if the bouquets are hosted at a private HTTP site?


I've no experience writing Scripts / Plugins but just wanted to know if it is possible.


Anyone done something similar or know how to let me know


Thanks for reading

[jfish]

Is it possible too write a separate Plugin / Script to automatically download the up-to-date bouquets same way as we download the EPG for example if the bouquets are hosted at a private HTTP site?


I've no experience writing Scripts / Plugins but just wanted to know if it is possible.


Anyone done something similar or know how to let me know


Thanks for reading

I do Linux scripting, so shouldnt be difficult to use some kind of HTTP GET function to download the files and them move them to the correct location for the bouquets and run script using CRON say once a week.

[SGTFlipFlop]

That sounds good, That is exactly what I was thinking about. I had a look at making it myself but have no knowledge in this side of things

[lincsat]

You can write it into rcS or init to download on boot. You can get a tarball hosted somewhere, then wget the tarball, gunzip and move files to the correct folder - you just have to keep the tarball up to date. It does work

[jfish]

a very quick and dirty script I have written in a few minutes . obviously will need to do more work to check from existance of file and other error checking.

Basically the file is downloaded to the tmp folder, and unzipped to the correct folder where the boquets are stored.

THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED

#/bin/bash
cd /tmp
wget "http://somewebsite.com/boquets.tar.gz"
tar xzf aboquets.tar.gz -C somedir/

[markj113]

the only problem then would be the regional channels like bbc 1, bbc 2 and itv.

Unless you stored different versions on the server like an english, welsh and irish one?

[jfish]

the only problem then would be the regional channels like bbc 1, bbc 2 and itv.

Unless you stored different versions on the server like an english, welsh and irish one?

only way is to have some flag file say in the var/etc folder like eng or wel or ir - and the script can parse the file and determine with region you want to download.

[tw87]

Glad your asking this mate as I asked on other forums and was told can't be done. Also asked here and was basically flamed because I also asked here as well as the other forum.

Hope it can be done as your bouquet sets are the best.

[jfish]

I will have time this weekend so develop this script on my Linux machine at home and then run it on my DM500S and see what happens .. will use my internal web server to download from as a test.

[SGTFlipFlop]

I will have time this weekend so develop this script on my Linux machine at home and then run it on my DM500S and see what happens .. will use my internal web server to download from as a test.

Much appreciated mate for the work

[jfish]

an update

over the weekend the little time I had (I was on call) I did write the script and did some testing and all were successful.

just need to clean it up a bit, especially the last stage of reloading the updates channels list ... at the moment the box has to be rebooted.. will post script later on .. but the script downloads from my internal web server so who ever wants to test script will have to modify it to download from an alternative web server.

[jfish]

as promised the script

#!/bin/sh
# script to download latest channels lists
# Tested on Enigma 1 images (DM500s)
# Jfish 1 Feb 2011


cd /tmp/
mkdir bq
cd bq
wget "http://192.168.1.10/bq.tar.gz"
chmod 755 /tmp/bq/bq.tar.gz
tar -xzvf bq.tar.gz

rm -rf /var/etc/satellites.xml
mv /tmp/bq/satellites.xml /var/etc/
rm -rf /tmp/bq/satellite.xml

cd /var/tuxbox/config/enigma/
rm -rf *.tv
rm -rf *.radio
rm -rf *.epl
rm -rf bouquets
rm -rf services
rm -rf services.locked

mv /tmp/bq/* /var/tuxbox/config/enigma/
rm -rf /tmp/bq.tar.gz
rm -rf /tmp/bq

wget -qO - http://root:[email protected]/cgi-bin/reloadSettings
wget -qO - http://root:[email protected]/cgi-b...adUserBouquets
reboot

couple of points

The web server 192.168.1.10 is my internal web server, this will need to be changed

The above was tested on a DM500S using Pli Jade 3 - should run on other Images - the above script wont run on Enigma 2 images

the tar.gz file is named bq.tar.gz. If creating the file on a Windows box use IZArc - create as Zip file first and then convert to a tar.gz file

The box gets rebooted at the end of script

save script as an sh file (channelreload.sh) and copy it to var/bin (may be different on other images)

use cron to schedule this to be executed once a day - I have not tested this as yet

to run it say every tuesday at 2am in the morning the cron command is

crontab 0 2 * * 2 /var/bin/channelreload.sh

The command for cron is

# Minute Hour Day of Month Month Day of Week Command

so you can change the schedule

to check for what is scheduled type crontab -l

[jfish]

see attache file

by default on the PLi Jade image - cron doesnt start as default, to do so, goto settings, hardware settings and then to services and select cron to start

once txt file is downloaded, rename extenstion to sh and upload to DM

[SGTFlipFlop]

Had a quick look at it earlier, Does the cron on Pli image need to be started via telnet?

[jfish]

Had a quick look at it earlier, Does the cron on Pli image need to be started via telnet?

no you do it thru interface