I have a Nebula Freeview card which I have been using with DABDig for over a year. I now also have a SkyStar2 card (ProgDV in my computer, and I want to be able to use that with DABDig too.

As default, I want the Nebula card to record everything, and use the SkyStar card as a secondary recording device when there are programmes that clash.

Can I set up a second copy of DABDig, with a different .ini file, to support my SkyStar device?

Stuart.

You could do .. but ... you can do it all with one copy.

That is called "device steering" in the DABDig user guide.

It will be a manual choice about which card to use (i.e. DABDig doesn't work out whic is free)

Off the top of my head .... make the following chnages in your dabdig.ini

UseProgDVB=1

DefaultDevice=DVB

ProgDVBDevName=TV2

Then modify a channel number to be ...

DVB-1,TV2-1

Experiment with a channel that you never usually record from.

When you add the marker you will be asked which device you want to use.

If it does not work ... set TraceFlags=2 and repeat the problem and send me your dabdig.txt and dabdig.ini

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Oh ok, Thanks. I did look at Device Steering, but I assumed it was mapping a channel to a particular device, and therefore didn't give you a choice.

Out of interest, how do you set up a second copy of DABDig?

Stuart.

2nd copy ... I've not tried it but something like this should work ... basically

copy DABDig.dgmarker to something else (DABDig2.dgmarker for example).

Then edit it to change:

- the 2 marker reference numbers (must be unique)

- the location of the executable that it runs (i.e. change from dabdig.vbe to dabdig2\dabdig.vbe)

- the prompt it gives (from DABDig to DABDig2)

Then create a new directory called dabdig2 off the main DigiGuide directory and put dabdig.vbe and dabdig.ini in it.

Then restart DigiGuide.

I don't recommend it though. There are quite a few users of DABDig with more than one device. If my first answer was right then it is just a 3 line edit to one text file.

DABDig creator

Edited by Paul Webster on Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 6:29:00 PM

Device Steering works great.

Thanks,

Stuart.

One thing to watch for ... existing markers might not work for channels where you have changed the channel "number" to include both devices.

If you have that - let me know and I'll talk you through the simple change.

DABDig creator

ouch! Tell me more. I already set up my Charismas recording schedule.

Thanks.

Stuart.

Here is the easiest way ...

from the DigiGuide Find function ... look for

:dabdigr

(yes - it begins with a colon)

That will show you everything that is queued to record.

For those that were entered before you changed the channels to have 2 devices and were for a channel that now has 2 devices (I guess all of them) ...

Now you have 2 choices.

Choice 1) Right-click on the programme and choose to "Do not record with DABDig" and then choose "Record with DABDig"

or (more techie - then you will understand how it works)

Choice 2) Right-click on the programme and choose to Edit/Edit DABDigR the marker - go to the Alert Tab and change within the Arguments section from

RECORD "$ChannelName" "$ChannelAssignment"

to

RECORD "$ChannelName" "DVB+$ChannelAssignment"

or

RECORD "$ChannelName" "TV2+$ChannelAssignment"

depending on which device you want to use.

(or - have a look at how it works with Choice 2 - but do it with option 1 )

If you have queued up any "Listen with DABDig" then repeat the process but with :dabdigL

DABDig creator

Edited by Paul Webster on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 5:50:50 PM

Also - you can make it generate different icons for the 2 different devices ...

Edit DABDigR.dgmarker with Notepad and change the 2 occurances of:

blnUseDeviceIcons = false;

to

blnUseDeviceIcons = true;

Then make a pair of icon files ... called

dabdigLTV2.ico

and

dabdigRTV2.ico

(easy way ... copy (not rename) dabdig02.ico to dabdigLTV2.ico and dabdig03.ico to dabdigRTV2.ico)

Restart DigiGuide.

From then on you have to be very careful about applying new updates from me because your DABDig.dgmarker will no longer be the same as mine ... so it would be overwritten by an update from me.

Best thing to do is to print out this thread and go back to it whenever you install an update.

I haven't documented this ability in the dabdig.htm because of this issue - but - I have told a few people who are using multiple devices so that they can easily see which device is queued for the recording.

DABDig creator

Thanks very much Paul.

Having different icons sure helps.

Stuart.

Small correction to above - I have edited it up there already.

Hopefully you spotted it - but just in case ...

If you were manually edit the alert box then it should have ended up like this.

dabdig.vbe RECORD "$ChannelName" "DVB+$ChannelAssignment" "$ProgrammeName" $Timestart("%Y" "%m" "%d" "%H" "%M") "$Duration" "$SingleLineDescription"

DABDig creator

Edited by Paul Webster on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 5:49:07 PM