DM800 HD Script help plz!

[saracen13]

Hi there!
I have a DM800HD and I wish to keep log of the service selected (only service, not provider) every one minute.
I searched a bit and I found out that if I telnet at dreambox http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices returns an XML file that lists the service currently playing. So I made a (noob) script that records for 8 hours total the services played. The sh file goes like this:

wget --output-document=1 http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices

sleep 60 # wait 60 second

wget --output-document=2 http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices

sleep 60 # wait 60 second

wget --output-document=3 http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices

sleep 60 # wait 60 second
.....

and so on for 600 times (lame I know....)

It basically creates a file with a number as file name (incremental) and it stores it in the DM memory.

Can someone help me make it more sophisticated than that so that it never stops recording every 1 minute the service selected at the time? And where do I need to store this sh file so that it gets executed automatically when the dreambox boots up?? Right now I need to have a PC turned on in order to do this with putty and the xml files get stored at ./home/root of dreambox

PLease hep me make this proper or please advice me on other means to have a log of services selected (I use CCcam as a client).
Thanks for help in advance!

[IAmATeaf]

You could put it in as a cron job to run every minute, I'd avoid putting sleeps in the script as it will consume CPU time.

[saracen13]

Thanks for replying!
Great idea, however it would overwrite the same XML file again and again while my intention is to keep a log on the services currently played by my dreambox.
So it would be ideal to put in cron this:

wget --output-document=1 http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices

However that would overwrite the file named "1" every minute so I would not have a log of the services....

[IAmATeaf]

Well why didn't you say so

Use:

wget --output-document=- http://127.0.0.1/web/subservices >> 1

That will output to std out and the >> will redirect and append to said file

[saracen13]

OK I will try this!!!
Many thanks I will return with post to inform if this works out!
:-)