Sky through composite and Channel lineups ??? please help

[johnnyfive]

Hi guys. I'm really confused over this.

I have sky coming through a composite input and need a way of changing the channels through the pc with an mce infrared blaster. So i figure I need some sort of virtual channel lineup on the composite source.

Any ideas?

[doc]

Brief guide.... (as I'm stuck at work and dont have time for a full guide).
This should help you get started if nothing else.

Use Alan Birtles grabber http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv to grab the TV listings from the Radio Times website.

Then use StephaneM's XMLTV importer http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...ight=stephanem to read the file generated by the radio times grabber, and it creates lineups in Sagetv.
When you configure stephanes importer, you tell it the channel numbers that sky uses for each channel.

Then when you add a source in sage, you tell it to use the lineup that was generated from Stephanes importer.
When you configure the source, you tell it which blaster to use. I've only ever done this with the USBUIRT so I don't know how to set up the MS blaster - but part of the configuring involves pointing the Sky remote at the blaster and sage will learn the codes for the numbers - 0 to 10, to enable it to send the channel changes to the digibox.

Someone must have a better guide somewhere......

[doc]

There's some useful info in the following thread

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9340

But a lot of it is out of date. It should help you get an idea though.

[johnnyfive]

Thanks Doc, the method below is working flawlessy. I can now change channels through placeshifter too !!

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...0&postcount=10