Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:47 PM
The PC Zapper is a rather ill-documented piece of hardware (though you can email to
content [at] pczapper [dot] nl to get a copy of the content-developping-manual), although it's built to be an open and user-input-friendly system.
It uses .PBC (container files, sort of dynamic link files, somewhat similar to rcc) and .PSM script files in which you can define your own user actions with the PCZapper Remote. For instance, you can use MediaPortal, Meedio or in my case GB-PVR to actually record files using your TV Card and an XMLTV frontend as I described in my previous post.
To use GBPVR with PCZapper, I created this script, which I imported with the PC Zapper Media Manager (the little orange icon next to the windows clock.)
If you click it using your PCZapper remote, it will close the PCZapper interface and open GBPVR. That is, if you edited the file (with notepad) to your specific needs. Because of a bug in the initialisation of the TVCard from GBPVR (at least that's what I think it is) I need to switch the TVcard on and off with the Hauppauge WinTV2K first before I hear sound on the live TV and in the recordings. You can use the bat called tvsoundon.bat (download in links section) in yous startup folder or in your PCZapper Script. Option two is embedded in the script. If you dont want it, comment the line out by placing a '
in front of it. (The three lines under 'switch command line recorder on, then swith off, to make sure TVcard is initialised)
To experiment on your own, use the keyboard reference from GBPVR's WIKI and cross-reference with the recieving tags from PCZapper:
(I hope these are right, got them out of the machine code from PC Zapper)
<OnKeyEPG>
<OnKeyFN>
<OnKey0>
<OnKey1>
<OnKey2>
<OnKey3>
<OnKey4>
<OnKey5>
<OnKey6>
<OnKey7>
<OnKey8>
<OnKey9>
<OnKeyStar>
<OnKeyVolUp>
<OnKeyVolDown>
<OnKeyNextChannel>
<OnKeyPrevChannel>
<OnKeyMute>
<OnKeyHelp>
<OnKeyRight>
<OnKeyLeft>
<OnKeyUp>
<OnKeyDown>
<OnKeyEnter>
<OnKeyMenu>
<OnKeyBack>
<OnKeyRecord>
<OnKeyStop>
<OnKeyPlay>
<OnKeyPrev>
<OnKeyNext>
<OnKeyRed>
<OnKeyGreen>
<OnKeyYellow>
<OnKeyBlue>
<OnKeyShift>
<OnKeyRepeat0> will apparently trigger if you press and hold the 0 key, works for all keys.
Don’t know what these two do, but I found them in the machinecode:
<OnKeyjpeg>
<OnKeyjpg>
Take the code I provided as an example and look in the community from PCZapper.nl for more examples.
If your code works, please drop a note and publish on the PCZapper forum.
Good luck!