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The Services Layer

Part II: Home Entertainment

Fix the listings file

There’s still one last problem to solve. Somewhere along the way, the for-

mat that XMLTV creates and the format that myHTPC expects got out of

synch. Hopefully this will be corrected in myHTPC by the time you read

this, but if not, there’s an easy way to fix it. Download http://myhtpc.net/

pub/XMLTV_Fixer/FixXMLTVListings.vbs and save it to c:\Program Files\

myHTPC\. Then at a command prompt type:

> c:\progra~1\myhtpc\FixXMLTVListings.vbs c:\progra~1\myhtpc\data\tv\

listings\EPGData.xml

Let’s check our progress again. Launch myHTPC, click on “my TV”, and

then click on TV Guide. You should see a program listing like the one in

Figure 7-14. Excellent. So, now that you have the TV working, you’re going

to want to control it from the couch, no?

3. Configure the IR remote control

No home theater component would be complete without the ability

to control it from the couch. This brings us to the IR Remote Control

component.

If you’re using a TV tuner card other than the Hauppauge and it didn’t come with

a remote, see Chapter 5, Remotely Control Your Computer, for information about

building and programming your own.

Automatic Program

Listings

In order to keep the EPG loaded

with data, you need to periodically

request an update and then fix the

listings using the VBScript file. Are

you going to remember to ...