Re: Dream world? - Digiguide control

["Dan James" <UKHA@xxxxxxx>]

Perfect :-)

Many thanks Doogie

I have not got too deep into Digiguide yet - only picked it up this
week

Regards

Daniel

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Doogie Brodie" <doogiebrodie@z...>
wrote:
> > I have been looking at using the Microsoft Scriptit.exe t  launch
an
> > MP3 recorder and set it t  record but I am stumped as t  how t
tell
> > it t  trigger from Digiguide....
>
> Easy(ish!) - once you've got everything setup t  do what you want,
set a
> reminder on the programme, set the options for the time you want
(eg 5 mins
> before), set external program, set the filename and arguments you
want.....
>
> From the help file
>
> $TimeStart	The programme start date and time. You can optionally
format the
> start time by adding some format parameters in brackets e.g.
> $TimeStart(%m/%d/%Y %H:%M) would return "2/28/2000 23:45".
>
> Note that if no formatting is given, then the default (%d/%m/%Y %H:%
M) is
> assumed. See the Formatting start and end times t pic for more
information.
> $TimeEnd	The programme end date and time. You can optionally
format the end
> time by adding some format parameters in brackets e.g. $TimeEnd(%m/%
d/%Y
> %H:%M) would return "2/28/2000 23:45".
> 	Note that if no formatting is given, then the default (%d/%m/%
Y %H:%M) is
> assumed. See the Formatting start and end times t pic for more
information.
>
> $ProgrammeName	Full programme name
> $Description	Full description of the programme
> $Duration	Duration of the programme in minutes
> $ChannelName	Name of channel broadcasting the programme
> $ChannelID	Channel number assigned in Select Channels
>
> are all the arguments so you'd probably want the duration t  st p
recording.
>
> I've not done much with this except trying the SMS stuff
> (http://www.digiguide.com/dg/faq/emailreminders.shtml)
which didn't
work
> well due t  Genie ;->
>
> HTH!
>
> Doogie