Auto Change Channel Before Going on Standby

[dsayers]

I still havent tested this but OpenATV already have something in place for custom standby scripts

https://github.com/openatv/enigma2/commit/f8f20c86f73748ee30564fcb8df66739990b3d26#diff-540acf08816e2c9c140f420d5390a0c1

Maybe Vix can do the same.

Edit they changed to use Console().ePopen instead of os.system

https://github.com/openatv/enigma2/commit/1e54b1be4e2f526fc9b84678a42deaee18fef486#diff-540acf08816e2c9c140f420d5390a0c1

[ess2k]

I still havent tested this but OpenATV already have something in place for custom standby scripts

https://github.com/openatv/enigma2/commit/f8f20c86f73748ee30564fcb8df66739990b3d26#diff-540acf08816e2c9c140f420d5390a0c1

Maybe Vix can do the same.

Edit they changed to use Console().ePopen instead of os.system

https://github.com/openatv/enigma2/commit/1e54b1be4e2f526fc9b84678a42deaee18fef486#diff-540acf08816e2c9c140f420d5390a0c1

hi, So what are the implications of this, what does this means? can i add os.system to the file myself?

Thanks

[dsayers]

hi, So what are the implications of this, what does this means? can i add os.system to the file myself?

Thanks

Yes you can add it yourself I was just giving info for devs to look at so maybe something like this can be standard then users would add there standby scripts to usr/scripts in StandbyEnter.sh and StandbyLeave.sh.

I haven't tested yet but attached is an edited Standby.py FTP Standby.py to \usr\lib\enigma2\python\Screens and save a copy of the .pyo.

Reboot box.

Create your script and call it StandbyEnter.sh and FTP it to usr/scripts when you press stanby it should run the script.

For creating the script test it with script runner first to see if it works.

[ess2k]

@dsayers

Thank you for going through the trouble, I have tried but for some reason i cannot get it to work. I have backups of the origional standby.pyo, deleted it, put your standby.py in, restarted and it created the pyo as expected. i created my script and put it in the correct folder and set correct permissions but nothing happens.

I have but the script in the bin folder and ran the script from putty and it changes the channel, my script is just this,

wget -q -O - http://127.0.0.1/web/zap?sRef=1:0:19:1B1D:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0

i tried running the script from the usr\scripts folder in putty but keep getting, no such file or directory found, but its there, to try and run the script from that folder i am simply typing in the following, usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh

any ideas? ( i am pretty new at this linux commands stuff)

[ccs]

....try /usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh rather than usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh

[dsayers]

@dsayers

Thank you for going through the trouble, I have tried but for some reason i cannot get it to work. I have backups of the origional standby.pyo, deleted it, put your standby.py in, restarted and it created the pyo as expected. i created my script and put it in the correct folder and set correct permissions but nothing happens.

I have but the script in the bin folder and ran the script from putty and it changes the channel, my script is just this,

wget -q -O - http://127.0.0.1/web/zap?sRef=1:0:19:1B1D:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0

i tried running the script from the usr\scripts folder in putty but keep getting, no such file or directory found, but its there, to try and run the script from that folder i am simply typing in the following, usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh

any ideas? ( i am pretty new at this linux commands stuff)

I have just copied and pasted the wget script and pasted in putty and it zaps to BBC 1 HD, it can also be ran in script runner, menu, setup, vix, script runner choose StandbyEnter.sh

Im currently on OpenATV and they call it Job manager and it runs fine but not when pressing standby.

So I thought I would try another script so in StandbyEnter.sh I put

#!/bin/bash
wget -O /tmp/ABM.xml "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oe-alliance/AutoBouquetsMaker/master/AutoBouquetsMaker/providers/sat_282_sky_uk.xml" &> /dev/null 2>&1

Pressed standby and it downloaded sat_282_sky_uk.xml to ABM.xml in tmp, so im not sure why it doesnt change change channel on standby

[ess2k]

....try /usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh rather than usr/scripts/StandbyEnter.sh

that got the script to run from the folder usr - scripts. thank you for that, i certainly wont forget that / again

[ess2k]

@dsayers

thanks you for all your help, i didnt know what script runner was until now, i ran the script from script runner and it works. again, crazy how 1 script works fine proving the code is correct but this particular script dont.

edit: do you think adding

#!/bin/bash

to the beginning of the script would make a difference?

edit 2- nope, it dont.

[birdman]

I have but the script in the bin folder and ran the script from putty and it changes the channel, my script is just this,

wget -q -O - http://127.0.0.1/web/zap?sRef=1:0:19:1B1D:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0

Whcih won't work, as "?" is an active shell character.
try:

wget -q -O - 'http://127.0.0.1/web/zap?sRef=1:0:19:1B1D:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0'

[ess2k]

Whcih won't work, as "?" is an active shell character.
try:

wget -q -O - 'http://127.0.0.1/web/zap?sRef=1:0:19:1B1D:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0'

I really thought this would do the trick, it made perfect sense, but it still won't work

so i tried another script,

grab -d -p /tmp/test.png

Though it works from script runner, it doesnt from standby, i even tried the scripts as StandbyLeave.sh just to test and they still dont run.

could it be a openvix issue?

[ess2k]

just to show what i have done, in case i am doing something wrong,
1.jpg Standby.py as provided dsayers (thank you)

2.PNG Modifies StandbyEnter.sh as suggested by birdman ( thank you)

3.PNG Image of where i am copying file to, and file attrib

4.PNG Image of where i am copying file to, and file attrib

[ccs]

that got the script to run from the folder usr - scripts. thank you for that, i certainly wont forget that / again

If the script is in the current directory, then ./scriptname is all you need.
The full pathname (the one starting with /usr in your case) will work from any directory.

I'm not sure which the current directory script runner starts up in, so it's best to cd into the one you want at the start of the script.
(Using the full pathname.)

[birdman]

just to show what i have done, in case i am doing something wrong,
1.jpg Standby.py as provided dsayers (thank you)

That code refers to leaving standby, not entering it. You want the bit lower down....(as ccs noted in #20).

[ess2k]

That code refers to leaving standby, not entering it. You want the bit lower down....(as ccs noted in #20).

Hi, I am sure the code for entering standby is there too, i collapsed a couple sections just so i could show the code fro entering standby, if you look at the second half of the image, the text in green it says "use custom script when putting in standby" i am sure this is the correct section for entering standby.

unless I am wrong?

[birdman]

Hi, I am sure the code for entering standby is there too,

Ah, sorry. Gave up reading too soon.

The thing to do is to write a script that just echoes some text to a file in /tmp. That will check that the facility is working.
Once that is working, to debug a script that then isn't put this at the top:

#!/bin/sh
#

exec > /tmp/standby.log 2>&1
set -x
...
...your actual code....
...

This will produce a (debug) log of what is happening in /tmp/standby.log and let you figure out what is going wrong.