Topfield v2.0 User's Manual
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1. v2 0 user ouide LN DE v2 0 user guide Page 1 Introduction to iGuide iGuide is a Topfield Application Program TAP providing a grid style Electronic Programme Guide EPG for the Topfield TF5800 DVB T PVR incorporating now and next information series link timers which provide the ability for all episodes in a series to be recorded automatically and cross channel recording patterns which allow related programmes on different channels to be recorded automatically It is currently available with English Polish Norwegian and Welsh language packs iGuide allows the creation of EPG Views lists of channels in a user defined order giving easy access to favourites lists for different individuals family safe EPG views e g with adult channels hidden or even Sky like categories Children s Movies etc iGuide v2 0 is found at http www shinyford co uk toppy iguide2 zip this manual can be found at http www shinyford co uk toppy iguide2 pdf MP3 music files to be played as background music while viewing e g EPG pages should that sort of thing be your cup of tea can be downloaded from http www shinyford co uk toppy iguide_music zip Key No Function LIST 1 EPG Views screen EXIT 2 See description below ARCHIVE 3 Recordings amp Timers screens GUIDE 4 Grid style EPG MENU 5 Configuration screen INFO a LEFT RIGHT b CH UP CH2. DN C Show navigate through now and next banner UP DN d VOL UP VOL DN e also causes channel change The EXIT key In any standard iGuide screen the EXIT key will return the user to the currently tuned channel However if pressed during a standard broadcast while there are no on screen graphics present the EXIT key causes the next key press to be ignored by iGuide and so allows it to be handled by other TAPs or the Topfield OS Therefore to access the standard Topfield menu when viewing a broadcast for example press EXIT followed by MENU ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 2 Starting iGuide If iGuide is installed in the ProgramFiles Auto Start directory it will be loaded whenever the TF5800 is switched on this is the recommended option It can also be started manually if installed elsewhere through the usual Topfield TAP loading interface iGuide s support files are stored in a directory at ProgramFiles Settings iguide if this does not already exist iGuide will create it when it first boots Certain configuration files described below in the Support Files section are included in the iGuide distribution zipfile If you wish to use any of these for example channel and channel group logos from files logo dat and cglogo dat then ProgramFiles Settings iguide must be created and appropriate files copied into it before iGuide starts But none of these are actively necessary iGuid
3. SMS _ON 0 no USE OK 0 no BACKGR 1 iGuide broadcast THUMBS 1 yes HOMEIN O increasingly small EOF This is the current set of selections for iGuide s options Each option entry has three settings an identifier name the current value of the option as set by the user and a description of that value s meaning in the context of the option This latter 1s not really necessary but it does make the options more human readable The final EOF marks the end of the options list Block 3 current EPG view Nic s EPG This specifies the name of the EPG View currently being used as the default Block 4 Freeview Line Up s hidden channels ALL 3 REDHOTTV TalkSport Smile TV This block specifies the the channels that are hidden in the Freeview Line Up EPG view and therefore unavailable to any EPG view Block 5 EPG view definitions Nic s EPG english 1 18 BBC ONE BBC TWO BBC THREE BBC FOUR CBeebies BBC Radio 4 BBC 7T ITVL ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 CITV five SKY THREE Channel 4 E4 More 4 FilmFour Sam s EPG english 2 2 CBeebies CITV EOF The next block specifies the EPG Views and terminates the list with the string EOF don t delete this or it ll get very confused Each EPG View is defined as name language id number of channels channel 0 name channel N name ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 30 Block 6 Channel group definitions 5 All channels 1 All BBC channels 2 BBC Cbeebies All IT
4. rather than a Recording timer If the currently selected programme has a recording enter the recording edit screen for it If the programme currently selected in the grid has a recording a watch timer or a series link you will be asked if you really want to delete it pressing the YELLOW key will confirm this causing the recording to be deleted If the recording was part of a series link other recordings on the same pattern will remain recording of future editions of the episode just deleted will be inhibited by the fact that you ve just deleted this one iGuide keeps a record of deletions and assumes that a deleted episode is definitely not wanted If you want to record a future edition of the episode you will need to either manually set a recording for it or refresh the series link pattern see below Show full information for the currently selected programme in a popup window press any key to exit the window Toggle between EPG grid mode and single channel per page mode Exit the screen and tune to the currently selected channel Repopulate EPG information for the currently selected channel Start a search Pressing TEXT opens a prompt which asks for a series of comma delimited search terms to be typed in using the standard editing keys in Edit Mode see below Press BLUE to toggle between just searching programme titles and searching both titles and descriptions press FFW or REW to cycle through the ge
5. USE OK 0 no BACKGR 1 iGuide broadcast THUMBS 1 yes HOMEIN O increasingly small EOF Nic s EPG ALL 3 REDHOTTV TalkSport Smile TV Nic s EPG english 1 18 BBC ONE BBC TWO BBC THREE BBC FOUR CBeebies BBC Radio 4 BBC 7 ITV1 ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 CITV five SKY THREE Channel 4 E4 More 4 FilmFour Sam s EPG english 2 2 CBeebies CITV EOF 5 All channels 1 All BBC channels 2 BBC Cbeebies All ITV channels 1 ITV Channel Four group 4 Channel 4 E4 More 4 Film4 Channel Five group 1 Five BBC ONE 1 Data Files Dr Who Doctor Who 32 1080 1440 16 EOF clouds skn The iguide epc file can be edited but its structure is not very obvious so let s take each block in turn Block 1 version identifier 108 This is the version identifier for the configuration file As iGuide develops more and different information needs to be stored in the configuration file and so the version number goes up iGuide is aware of these changes and will load earlier versions of configuration files happily should you upgrade NE v2 0 user guide Page 29 Block 2 current options settings NAVIG 0 full page PADBEFORE 2 3 mins PADAFTER 3 5 mins NAN TIME 5 10 secs KEEP REC 0 30 days RT MODE 1 apart EPG W 4 180 mins KEY SET 1 maximali PAGESZ 0 7 RCONTIG 0 together ALPHA O by time SUMGMTOFF 13 1 WINGMTOFF 12 0 MIS 0 no SMS RESP 3 originator and 1GuideSMS master
6. so that these will match The UNIQUE settings changed by using the LEFT RIGHT ARROW therefore can be one of yes If the description and title match exactly other than for punctuation and case the second programme will not have a timer created for it no We don t care about a recorded episode being unique so every episode will be recorded regardless xx Programmes will be considered the same i e the second episode will not have a timer set for it if they are statistically xx similar to each other The default of 70 seems to work fairly well in most cases where there s doubt Note that the UNIQUE setting is made largely redundant by bdb s CRID TAP since each series and episode is uniquely identified by a crid code there is no need to analyse the description to see if a show is a repeat However UNIQUE is still useful if CRID is not running and for those channels which are still not broadcasting crid codes consistently FOLDER Specifies the folder into which the pattern s recordings will be placed Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to cycle through the list of existing folders OK to enter Edit Mode to create a new folder or SLOW to create a new folder or find an existing one from the pattern s title If a folder specified here does not exist it will automatically be created when the pattern is saved or forgotten about if the changes are cancelled EXPIRES Specifies the time at which recordings made through
7. sound or un mutes it again OPT Enables or disables subtitles SLOW Starts playing the last played recording from its last viewed position UE v2 0 user guide Page 24 Edit Mode There are a number of circumstances in which things need to be edited EPG View names pattern titles and keywords for example At these times iGuide enters Edit Mode allowing text to be entered via the remote control Text is entered using the number keys in a system similar to that of a mobile phone Pressing a number key repeatedly cycles through the following characters l PERIOD COMMA DASH QUOTE 4 8 7 P TP Z AB Gy 3 DELF 4 G R T P 5 TRK LGS 6 M N 0 0 7 PQR S T 8 T U V g 9 W KXK Y Z O 0 SPACE DOUBLE QUOTE V T T T As with some mobile phones pausing a short period forces the cursor to move on one character so multiple characters from the same key can be entered For example to produce the letters C and A for the word CAR press the 2 key three times in quick succession for the letter C and then pause After a short period the cursor will move forward one space allowing you to press the 2 key again to produce the letter A Other key actions are available in edit mode RED Change case from lower to upper or vice versa GREEN Delete one character YELLOW Clear t
8. this pattern will be automatically deleted after they have finished recording useful for example if you want to set a series pattern for the daily news but aren t interested in keeping yesterday s recording after today s has been recorded Google it Go on Google it AA i mxa D WE v2 0 user guide Page 19 foul Note that this time applies to the recording from the next full hour after it finishes That is to say if a pattern has an expiry time of I day 3 hours and a programme finishes recording at 1 25pm on a Tuesday then the next full hour is 2pm so it will be automatically deleted I day 3 hours later at 5pm on the Wednesday Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change the time in units of one hour or CHANNEL UP DOWN to change it in units of one day The default is never 8 The Recording Timer edit screen ee ont E Bn Title Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip More 4 iGuide s timers are created with a default set of attributes as which can be edited as necessary in this screen A recording eri 095 0055 iDataFiles or timer can be edited by selecting it in the recordings timers T screen and then pressing PAUSE The following keys are available in recording edit mode RED After confirmation by pressing YELLOW any other key cancels deletes the recording timer and exits YELLOW Saves the current state of the recording and exits BLUE Exits without saving The available options for edit ar
9. will be captured by the series link if they contain the appropriate keywords Beware ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 18 UNIQUE A programme is said to be unique if its description and title are different to those of other programmes matching the same pattern Using the UNIQUE setting you can choose to stop any future copies repeats of a programme getting timers set for them once one version of that particular episode has been recorded successfully For example every episode of EastEnders on BBC1 is repeated later in the day on BBC3 If a pattern is created for all EastEnders episodes on all BBC channels with UNIQUE set to yes then iGuide will note that the BBC3 episode is a copy of the earlier BBCI episode and not set a timer for it More importantly if the BBC1 episode fails to record then iGuide will create a timer for the BBC3 episode in its place In iGuide it is possible to have gradations of uniqueness despite what Simon Fisher may maintain iGuide uses a simple statistical analysis to compare two programme descriptions to see if they are the same as each other This is useful where for example the BBC1 episode of EastEnders is described as Billy buys Peggy a metronome while the BBC3 episode describes it as Billy buys Peggy a metronome Followed by the news we can see they re the same episode even though the descriptions are different iGuide potentially allows a certain degree of difference
10. 3 KEEP RECORDING INFO FOR After a recording has been viewed and deleted iGuide will keep information about it for a certain number of days in order to stop a repeat of the show being recorded assuming it was recorded via series link defined as unique see below This option allows you to define how long to keep such a record for before deleting it KEY SET maximal minimal If maximal iGuide takes control of all the keys as described in this guide preventing the key presses being picked up by other TAPs or the standard TF5800 user interface Note that keys will be passed through to other TAPs if the EXIT key is pressed first while viewing a normal programme that s one without the now and next banner or other iGuide screen If minimal only INFO and LIST are acquired by iGuide so that only the now and next banner and EPG View screen can be entered This leaves most keys on the remote available to other TAPs Note that once in now and next or the EPG View screen in minimal key set mode iGuide uses the keys as described in this guide up until the point at which its screens are left again EPG WIDTH The number of minutes to show per page of the EPG grid also selectable by use of the PAUSE key in the EPG Grid screen itself VIEW EPG AS A GRID Choose yes for the standard grid view or no for a single channel per page view EPG JUMP the number of hours forward or backward that iGu
11. DE button GUIDE or EXIT will iGuide 1 The EPG Grid Screen Page 5 control screens EAN Thu 19 Jul 2007 11 08pm IGUIDE FREEVIEW LINE UP Today 11 00pm 11 30pm 12 00am 12 30am 1 00am 1 30am Bos l Betweer Panora one ooe eee TWO drew Neil 23 WEEK A fresh approach to politics as An scusses the week s top political stories S News Current affairs 23 05 23 50 THIS close the screen and revert to the current channel Other key actions RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT CH DN UP REW FFW PIP OK Move a page up down i e to the previous next set of channels Move forward back 24 hours Move to the previous next channel in the list Move to the previous next programme on the current channel or backward forward by half an hour if the previous next programme is not on the current screen Move to the previous next programme on the current channel If that s off the screen move the grid back forth in time to view the programme Move one page back forward in time i e if you re looking at a grid covering 3 00pm to 6 00pm REW will move to a page covering 12 00pm to 3 00pm FFW will move to a page covering 6 00pm to 9 00pm Change the size of the time window Pressing PIP repeatedly will cycle through time periods from 1 hour to 4 hours in half hour chunks The greater the time period the more programmes are shown at once but with less detail for each p
12. HIGHTLIGHT SELECTED HIGHLIGHT TEXT ON BAR TEXT ON SELECTED BAR TEXT ABOVE BARS TEXT BELOW BARS LOGO TINT amp BACKGROUND As each colour type is displayed its current RGB value is shown This can be changed by pressing 1 or 7 red value up down 2 or 8 green value up down 3 or 9 blue value up or down At any point press OK to preview Page 21 LOAD SKIN FROM FILE This option navigated again through LEFT RIGHT ARROW lists skin files found in the iguide directory Skin files can be either native iGuide files with a skn extension or MyStuff skin files mcf extension from which iGuide makes an educated guess as to appropriate colour schemes Press OK to preview a skin fee v2 0 user guide Page 22 The Now and next Banner During playback of a recording or viewing of a broadcast programme pressing the INFO or OK keys will bring up the Now and Next banner If there are no on screen graphics at the time pressing UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT or CHANNEL UP DOWN will also bring up the banner The banner shows information about individual programmes on a channel or the currently playing recording If the description is for a playing recording or current broadcast a progress bar is shown giving a visual representation of how much has been viewed If the description is for a programme rather than a recording a short next bar above the banner gives a little lead in information regarding the
13. V channels 1 ITV Channel Four group 4 Channel 4 E4 More 4 Film4 Channel Five group 1 Five This block specifies the channel groups being groups of channels across which a series link pattern could match A channel is said to belong to a channel group if its name matches one of a number of patterns attached to that group so BBC channels as defined above are all channels with BBC somewhere in the name or the Cbeebies channel ITV channels just have ITV in the name and so on The channel groups defined in the example here are the default groups if no iguide epc file exists these channel groups are defined automatically Note that if an iguide epc file does exist but contains no channel group definitions then only All channels is created by default The first integer 5 above is the number of groups in total Following lines define a group thus group name number of patterns pattern O pattern N Block 7 Series link pattern definitions BBC ONE 1 Data Files Dr Who Doctor Who 32 1080 1440 16 EOF This block specifies the series link patterns for each channel or channel group One channel group per line the block terminated again with an EOF string Each line has the following format channel group name number of patterns patterns Each pattern has the following format programme title pattern keywords integer representing days start time end time unique value The start time and end time in the p
14. attern line above are the number of minutes since the start of a day 1080 6 00pm 1440 midnight Note that the programme title pattern may contain a path like portion at the beginning If it exists this specifies the folder into which iGuide will move successfully recorded programmes matching the pattern If no path like portion exists the recorded programme will remain in Data Files Block 8 current skin file clouds skn The name of the file containing the current skin definition see below ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 31 The iguide skn configuration file The iguide skn file consists of 13 lines separated by commas or whitespace Background image Bar colour Highlight colour on bar Bar colour when selected Highlight colour on bar when selected Bar colour when selected for movement Text colour on bar Text colour on selected bar Text colour against background above the bars Text colour against background below the bars A red colour for programmes that are recording A blue colour for programmes that are being watched Background colour in the absence of a background image The background image line can be one of NONE there is no background image so use the background colour instead XXXXXX JPG a jpeg image to display as background found in the same directory as the skin file All other lines define colours Each can be one of RRR GGG BBB three integers below 256 defining the red gr
15. back and forth in increasingly small amounts until the correct point is located Two JntuiLeap modes are available increasing small diminishes the amount jumped on each key press this is the most efficient method but not necessarily the most intuitive diminishes on direction change mode only changes the jump amount when the direction of travel changes slightly less efficient but easier to understand what s going on 4 May I Suggest predictive programming The May I Suggest feature attempts to identify programmes you may like but not already know about based on recordings you ve already made and indicated you enjoyed Again fuzzy logic is used to compare upcoming programmes with existing recordings If no recordings have already been identified May J Suggest falls back to a Tivo emulation mode in which every episode of the Simpsons is recorded Thumbnailing Thumbnails can be manually or automatically generated for recordings including thumbnails of the last viewed position in a recording Multi recording playout Completed recordings can be marked as part of a playout collection Initiating play on a marked recording results in the entire collection being played out one after the other in a user defined sequence This allows multiple recordings to be played in a set order in one go for e g archiving to DVD or tape rey DE v2 0 user guide Page 4 7 Contiguous programm
16. background scan which updates one channel every two to four minutes CREATE A RECORDING Enter the Recording Edit screen see below to manually create a timer CREATE A SERIES Enter the Series Pattern Edit screen see below to manually create a series pattern EDIT SKIN Press OK to enter the Edit Skin screen see below MODIFY EPG VIEWS Press OK to enter the Modify EPG Views screen see below N DE v2 0 user guide Page 11 REFRESH RECORDINGS Causes iGuide to rebuild its list of recordings against what s on disk to make sure that all recordings exist and are in the folders it thinks they are This is useful if other TAPs are moving files around unbeknownst to iGuide but should actually never be necessary in the general run of things KEY MAP Enters a key mapping mode allowing iGuide functions to be assigned to non standard keys SCAN TIME Choose the time of day at which iGuide will wake itself to perform important system tasks specifically performing a full EPG scan generating thumbnails if required clearing out memory and reloading all data and checking for iGuideSMS timer settings Defaults to 3 55am Note that the time of this scan is constrained to 55 minutes past the hour This is to allow iGuideSMS timer settings for programmes starting at the next hour to have time to get Set PAD BEFORE RECORDING and PAD AFTER RECORDING Use LEFT and RIGHT to choose the number of minutes by wh
17. ctor Who D r Who Doctor Who Dr Who The Dog Botherer Who Came To Dinner Doctor Who Dr Wh Doctor Who Dr Who Dr Wh Doctor Who Dr Who Doctor Who Dr Who Doctor Who And The Daleks Dr Who Confidential Who Doctor Who Who Wants To Be A Millionaire CHANNEL The channel the programmes will be found on Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change C IGUIDE v2 0 user guide Page 17 Note that iGuide provides channel groups so that series links can span multiple channels To choose a channel group select a standard broadcast channel and then press CH This will select the first appropriate channel group for the base channel CH and CH will take you through appropriate channel groups and or back to the base channel LEFT RIGHT gt BBC ren ITV1 LEFT RIGHT gt C4 LEFT RIGHT gt v VA a vn CH CH CH CH CH CH v v ALL BBC T ANNEES ALL ITV co ia 4 GROUP M M CH CH CH CH CH CH v v ALL CHANNELS ALL CHANNELS ALL CHANNELS Available channel groups can also be found at the end of the channel list By default five channel groups are provided All channels All BBC channels All ITV channels C4 E4 More4 Film4 the Channel 4 group and five five life five US the channel five group Other channel groups can be created by editing the configuration files see below DAYS The days on which to search for matching programmes By default t
18. d approximately remaming the scientific in scheduled for evacuation As his officers vanish before his eyes he finds himself helples setividwed Pace up Brave down Bh CEGE The lower pane of the screen will show a portion of the information for a selected recording If available and enabled see Configuration page section below a thumbnail scene from the recording is also shown This defaults to the last viewed scene but up to six thumbnails spread across the recording will be generated either when chosen by the user see SWAP PIP in this section below or automatically overnight Access the recordings and timers screen by pressing the ARCHIVE button EXIT will close the screen and revert to the current channel Recording and timers may be split into separate screens according to a Configuration choice If this is in effect pressing ARCHIVE while in one of the screens will toggle to the other if it is not in effect ARCHIVE acts as EXIT returning to the current broadcast again Other key actions RED Moves a page up 1 e to the previous seven events GREEN Moves a page down YELLOW First or Up Jumps to the first item in the current folder i e the highest up the list or if that item is currently highlighted and you re looking at a subfolder causes iGuide to navigate up to the parent folder and display its contents instead BLUE Asks for confirmation to delete the current
19. e TITLE The title of the recording Press OK to enter edit mode to change the text CHANNEL Specifies the channel on which the recording timer was will be recorded Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change DATE The date on which the recording is to be made use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change in units of one day PERIOD The time at which the recording is to start and end Use OK to switch between the two LEFT RIGHT ARROW to adjust in units of one minute or FFW REW to adjust in units of 15 minutes FOLDER Specifies the folder into which the recording will be placed Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to cycle through the list of existing folders OK to enter edit mode to create a new folder or SLOW to create a new folder or find an existing one from the recording s title If a folder specified here does not exist it will automatically be created when the recording is saved or forgotten about if the changes cancelled EXPIRES Specifies the specific time and date that the recording will be deleted This defaults to never It cannot be earlier than the current date and time Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change the expiry time in units of one hour or CHANNEL UP DOWN to change it in units of one day AA EI 5 4 e v2 0 user guide Page 20 S E 9 The Edit Skin Screen F E SES AE noodly jpg p This screen allows the look and feel of iGuide to A Logo tint amp background R224 G48 B08 be edited The colour
20. e is able to work out of the box Note that earlier versions of iGuide could potentially store their configuration files in other places on disc e g ProgramFiles iguide or ProgramFiles Auto Start iguide If no ProgramFiles Settings iguide directory exists but such a directory does exist elsewhere then 1Guide v2 0 will automatically move it to the correct location at start up existing configuration will continue Do not create ProgramFiles Settings iguide if you are upgrading iGuide and wish to preserve an existing configuration including series link patterns and EPG Views The contents of the earlier directory will not be copied over if a directory exists in the correct new location iGuide key features iGuide has a number of key features that set it apart from other EPG replacements Some of these features are an intuitive part of the user interface others are additions of functionality that you may or may not use Either way it s a good idea to be aware of them before reading on into the main body of the user guide below 1 Series link patterns Series link patterns can be set up to create timers for any programme that matches certain criteria These criteria which are editable include channel or channel group see below title may contain wildcards days of the week portion of the day Keywords can also be added to a pattern If a pattern contains keywords then rather than matching programme titles programmes w
21. e recordings Recordings are automatically padded at either end with user definable values However if two programmes are to be recorded following each other on the same channel there s no possibility of padding This means that if the programmes each record into their own file on disk the end of the first may appear in the recording of the second or vice versa well not exactly vice versa but you know what I mean iGuide provides a contiguous recordings mechanism whereby recordings that follow each other on the same channel are recorded into a single master file This is invisible to the user as iGuide manages its recordings to make it appear that each is separate with the appropriate amount of padding before and after iGuideSMS recording by text iGuide provides a mechanism to allow timers to be set remotely via SMS text Note that this requires that a mobile phone with an RS232 GSM modem interface be attached to the Toppy s serial port Currently the Nokia 6310 and Seimens ME45 have been tested with this interface See the iGuideSMS quick guide below for further details ane Se es US js v2 0 user guide IGU The EPG Grid screen shows programme information for seven to ten channels at a time over a certain time window the size of which can be chosen as described below The channels displayed are taken from and ordered by the current EPG View see below Access the EPG grid screen by pressing the GUI
22. een and blue components of the on screen colour CCCCC a single integer with a high bit set Ox8000 representing the RGB8888 encoding of the colour RRGGBB a hex number for the colour where RR GG and BB are two digit hex values for the red green and blue components If you spot any problems or bugs with iGuide v2 0 or have any suggestions for improvements or future features please let me know to nicford co uk Many thanks Nic Ford March 2008 Offered as freeware without warranty of any kind
23. eived from an unknown phone by sending appropriate information to the master number when such a text is received To enable a master number create an address book entry on the phone s SIM card called Master and assign this an appropriate phone number for example the number of the main user s mobile phone In the iGuideSMS configuration screen select the CALL option and choose one of no one received texts are processed silently originator responses to received texts are sent to the text s originating phone master responses are sent to the number created for Master above originator and master responses are sent to both originator and master Texting a Timer Request Text messages sent to the connected phone need to include enough information for iGuide to deduce the action to be taken Include in the SMS message some or all of the following pieces of information it s likely that the programme will be identifiable from only a subset of these separated by a period followed by a space Title the name of the show excluding punctuation Channel the name of the channel or a synonym for it as defined in the iguide syn file ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 26 ate the date of the broadcast in the form dd mm yyyy or dd mm This could also be one of today tomorrow monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday or an abbreviation of one of those te
24. el the current channel moves to the top or bottom position as appropriate and the next previous six channels are displayed half page the current channels scroll up or down as appropriate such that the current highlighted channel takes the middle position and the next previous three channels are displayed above or below as necessary one channel at a time the current channels scroll up or down as appropriate by one line and the next previous channel selected and displayed GMT OFFSET YEAR END and GMT OFFSET MID YEAR The offset in hours from GMT in Northern hemisphere winter and summer respectively defaults to the UK 0 and 1 Daylight Savings Time is calculated according to the European and Australian standard DST begins ends on the last Sunday in March at 2 00am it ends begins on the last Sunday in October at 2 00am USE REC FOR WATCH If set to yes pressing REC or possibly OK on a selected programme in the EPG grid or now and next banner will have the default action of setting a watch timer If set to no the default action is to set a recording timer USE OK TO SET TIMER Sets whether or not to allow OK to be used to set timers and change recording status to Series Link in the EPG and Recordings and Timers pages For some people using OK in this way is intuitive and useful for others it causes a large number of timers to be set by mistake oS DN e v2 0 user guide Page 1
25. guration Some are compulsory others are not If a compulsory file does not exist one will be created All exist in the same directory as the iGuide TAP or just to make it neater in an i guide directory which is itself in the same directory as the iGuide TAP if one exists Configuration files are human editable but a bit esoteric where it s useful they are described more fully in sections below The following files may be found iguide igc basic configuration data including channel groups EPG views and options selections see below iguide igr a list of the current recordings and timers xxxxx epg a list of the current EPG data updated automatically overnight or created through the configuration screen for channel xxxxx These files are found in the iguide epg directory iguide syn a list of channel names and synonyms for those names used by iGuideSMS as described above This can be edited to change add synonyms and channels xxxxx sSkn amp xxxxx mcef skin files defining colours see below and background image in the case of skn files only On start up iGuide will try to load iguide skn and failing that iguide mcf mcf skin files are in a standard MyStuff format iGuide tries to make best use of the colours in these files by mapping entries onto its own requirements xxxxx igs multiple language files holding date time representations and iGuide s strings in appropriate languages english igs cvmraeg igs polski
26. he line completely OK Finish editing and save the result EXIT Finish editing but don t save the result Page 25 iGuideSMS Quick Guide iGuide provides a mechanism to allow timers to be set remotely via SMS text This requires that a mobile phone with an RS232 GSM modem interface be attached to the Toppy s serial port and that the iGuideSMS companion TAP bundled with iGuide be running To install iGuideSMS simply place the TAP in the ProgramFiles Auto Start directory Pressing RECALL or another user defined key will bring up a configuration screen for iGuideSMS where the options defined below can be set and information about any attached phone can be seen Configuring the Phone To use iGuideSMS find an appropriate mobile phone with a GSM modem and an RS232 serial cable interface currently the Nokia 6310 and Siemens ME45 have been tested Enable the phone with an appropriate SIM card a PAYG tariff supporting cheap text messaging 1s best Connect the phone to the serial port using the manufacturer s approved RS232 cable Ensure that hardware flow control is disabled Enter the config screens and find the iGuideSMS option this should tell you that a phone 1s attached attached phone make model charge baud and make Nokia Mobile Phones master number model Nokia 6310 Master Number The setting of a Master number allows iGuideSMS to inform the Toppy s owner if a text has been rec
27. he point at which the recording is currently being played Mon 24 Sep 2007 00 05 00 55 The current recording can be navigated in a number of ways REW FFW Initiates rewind x1 x2 x3 or fast forward x2 x4 x6 in the standard Toppy way LEFT RIGHT Moves the red caret point left or right of the current play position in steps of 1 of the recording press OK when the caret is at the desired point to move playback to that position RED Move the current play position back 10 seconds YELLOW BLUE Move the current play position back forward respectively by a given amount of time This amount defaults to 3 minutes Every time the direction changes going from YELLOW to BLUE or vice versa the amount used halves Successively using YELLOW and BLUE therefore allows you to easily home in on a point in the playback you re looking for just as using REW and FFW would help you to find the start of a particular Boney M track on a compilation tape in a 1970s cassette recorder Pressing any other key resets the amount of time to 3 minutes Other keys during normal operation During normal operation and whether or not a now and next banner is being displayed and assuming that a maximal key set is enabled see the configuration section above iGuide takes control of certain other keys 0 9 and OK As for now and next above allows the user to enter a channel number and navigate there MUTE Mutes the
28. his 1s every day but can be changed to any individual day weekdays weekend or weekdays Saturday using the LEFT RIGHT ARROW keys PERIOD A block of time on the identified days in which to search for programmes a programme is deemed to be in a block if it starts or ends in the block By default this block is the quadrant of the day 0000 0600 0600 1200 1200 1800 or 1800 0000 in which the original programme appears or two such quadrants if it spans them This default sorts out most things e g itll get all the weekday episodes of EastEnders but not the Sunday omnibus but it can be changed at will Use OK to swap focus between the start and end periods and LEFT RIGHT ARROW to change these times it 11 make more sense if and when you try it If end time is less than start time the block is deemed to be overnight KEYWORDS A series of keywords actually phrases separated by commas If this list exists the pattern matches on the existence of all keywords in a programme s title and or description A keyword can be preceded by a minus sign in which case the pattern will fail to match any programme whose title or description contains the remainder of the keyword Examples Keywords to match Possible matching programme titles Who Doctor Doctor Who Who Doctor Doctor Kildare Note that if keywords are defined for a pattern they supercede the title pattern this means that any programmes regardless of their name
29. hose descriptions contain the keywords will be matched Patterns can also be given a percentage of uniqueness Programmes have to be unique that is unlike an existing recording or timer within a margin of error to match the pattern This mechanism effectively stops multiple copies of the same episode of a series being recorded ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 3 Note that there is a TAP called CRID available from bdb s stable which finds and adds series link data to programme descriptions when broadcast by a channel If this TAP is running alongside iGuide then iGuide uses this extra data to make its series link pattern matching more accurate and quicker If possible please install and run CRID alongside iGuide Channel groups A channel group is a collection of channels that acts as a pseudo channel for series link patterns so that a pattern can match programmes from more than one channel Five default channels are provided with iGuide all BBC channels all ITV channels Channel 4 group excludes Film4 Channel 5 group and all channels Others can be added as the user sees fit IntuiLeap homing in navigation When playing back a recording you will often want to quickly move beyond say a commercial break iGuide s IntuiLeap navigation makes this a very quick process by homing in on the desired restart point Initial key clicks move five minutes in one direction or the other subsequent key clicks move
30. ich to commence recording before the start default 3 or finish after the end default 10 of a programme LINES PER PAGE The number of lines of information to show per page on the EPG and Recordings and Timers screens 7 to 10 The default is 7 since this allows room for an info area beneath the EPG with immediate access to programme information and help buttons Choosing a setting 8 or above loses this extra information but it can be seen by selecting a programme and pressing the INFO key SHOW RECORDINGS AND TIMERS apart together If apart pressing ARCHIVE brings up a list of recordings pressing ARCHIVE a second time swaps to a list of timers Successive presses of ARCHIVE swap between the two views If together pressing ARCHIVE brings up a list of all recordings and timers SORT RECORDINGS by time or alphabetically flat inc deletes Chooses the display mode for recording and timers The display mode is a combination of the choice of viewing recordings BY TIME or ALPHABETICALLY additionally the view can be made FLAT so that all recordings from the current folder and any sub folders are seen and can be made to INCLUDE DELETES whereby deleted recordings are also displayed with a strike through DELETED RECORDINGS after a recording has been viewed and deleted by the user iGuide archives its record for a number of days This is so that it can check against the deleted recording to ensure that no se
31. ide will use when REW or FFW are pressed during EPG grid view Defaults to 24 SHOW RECORDING THUMBNAILS Sets whether or not to show thumbnails by default in the Recordings and Timers pages NOW AND NEXT BANNER TIME Use LEFT and RIGHT to choose the number of seconds default 10 the now and next banner remains on screen following a keystroke HOME IN ALGORITHM When playing a recording and wishing to navigate quickly past say the adverts iGuide provides a homing in navigation algorithm called IntuiLeap IntuiLeap actually employs one of two basic algorithms increasingly small and diminishes on direction change The former is more efficient diminishing the amount jumped on each key this can however feel anti intuitive The latter is less efficient but more intuitive diminishing the amount jumped only when changing direction Choose the most appropriate algorithm for your use from this option oS DN WDE v2 0 user guide Page 14 JUMP PERIOD The number of minutes forward or backward that ntuiLeap will initially use when starting a home in navigation Defaults to five minutes BACKGROUND IMAGE SOUND Allows the user to choose whether or not to have background music or silence in iGuide pages and whether or not to view the currently broadcast programme through those pages The choices are iGuide iGuide the background image used 1s as set in the skin and background music found in the ProgramFiles
32. igs and norsk igs are provided as standard Other languages can be added by creating new igs files in the same format make sure exactly the same number of strings are provided and that the file ends with the string EOF xxxxx mp3 All valid MP3 files with a mp3 extension in the iguide directory will be played in turn by iGuide as background music if you don t want background music delete all mp3 files from the iguide directory Music is provided for use with iGuide in the zipfile at http www shinyford co uk toppy iguide_music zip This music is copyright Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2 0 logo dat channel logos as created by the UK Timers logo TAP cglogo dat bespoke logos for e g the channel groups in the same format as logo dat http incompetech com Shttp creativecommons org licenses by 2 0 Pd also add Oscar Peterson s rendition of the Girl from Ipanema if you have a copy to hand It rocks Well jazzes NE v2 0 user guide Page 28 The iguide igc configuration file A typical igc may have the following content 108 NAVIG 0 full page PADBEFORE 2 3 mins PADAFTER 3 5 mins NAN TIME 5 10 secs KEEP REC 0 30 days RT MODE 1 apart EPG W 4 180 mins KEY SET 1 maximali PAGESZ 0 7 RCONTIG 0 together ALPHA O by time SUMGMTOFF 13 1 WINGMTOFF 12 0 MIS 0 no SMS RESP 3 originator and iGuideSMS master SMS _ON 0 no
33. iguide folder is played or silence if nonesuch exists iGuide broadcast the background image used is as set in the skin but the soundtrack from the currently tuned channel continues broadcast broadcast the background image used is transparent so the the currently tuned channel can be seen and heard behind whatever pages iGuide shows CREATE ALL TIMERS By default iGuide will only create a small number of timers for future recordings typically ten This is for efficiency s sake iGuide updates its timers whenever a new recording 1s added or an old one deleted to make best use of the tuners and actually adding real timers is a slow process Whenever a recording starts the list of timers is updated again and new timers added so the fact that not all timers are created at once should never be a problem However some other TAPs benefit if all timers are created they also need to know if a recording is coming up Set this option to no the default if iGuide is the only TAP running that needs to know about all timers or yes if other TAPs also need this information iGuideSMS PHONE ATTACHED or iGuideSMS NO PHONE ATTACHED Shows the status of the iGuideSMS companion TAP which allows timers to be set by sending an SMS text to a mobile phone connected to the Toppy by a serial cable See the iGuideSMS quick guide below for further details RELOAD Causes iGuide to re initialise useful if for example new logo file
34. language which is a default view showing all available channels in their standard order and Recordings and Timers Cofnodiau which is a pseudo view which takes you to the recordings screen Access the EPG view screen by pressing the LIST button EXIT or LIST will close the screen and revert to the current channel UP DOWN ARROW navigates to the previous next view OK or GUIDE selects the currently selected view and enters its EPG Grid page From now on the EPG Grid page and the now and next banner will use this view 4 The Configuration Screen Accessed through the MENU key Use UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW to scroll through the options Press MENU or RED to move to the next page of configuration options in the current release of iGuide there are five such pages available EXIT will close the screen and revert to the current channel Options are of two sorts those with a choice of values and those without In the case of those with selectable options pressing LEFT and RIGHT will change the selection in the case of those without selectable options pressing OK will cause the option to be invoked The available options are SCAN EPG Press OK to start an EPG scan This is the process by which iGuide loads in all EPG data from over the air If you are unhappy with the number of programmes iGuide displays in the EPG grid you can initiate a scan here Note that iGuide automatically performs a
35. ly selected recording timer or series Pressing YELLOW will confirm the deletion any other key cancels UP DOWN Move to the previous next event au v2 0 user guide LEFT RIGHT REW FFW CH UP DOWN GUIDE PLAY SLOW PAUSE REC INFO 0 9 OK Page 8 This causes the number of minutes displayed for a recording to go down up so as to change the play position changing the minutes viewed this way allows quick navigation to known points in a recording Note that the display for a completed recording need not just show the number of minutes already viewed If a completed recording is currently selected it will display as RECORDED if it has yet to be played START or END if the playback position is in the first or last minute of the recording respectively or xx MINS VIEWED if partly viewed As LEFT RIGHT but in intervals of 15 minutes Tick or untick a recording or timer to mark it as a favourite for the purposes of May I Suggest matching If ticked a recording will be used as an example of the sort of thing you enjoy watching by MIS when it searches for new programmes Visually ticking a recording adds an image of a heart at the left side of its info bar Goes to the EPG View screen If the currently selected row is an upcoming timer centres the EPG view screen on that event otherwise the channel of the currently selected recordi
36. next programme on the same channel The following keys are available LEFT RIGHT ARROW Move to the previous next programme on the channel UP DOWN ARROW Move to the current programme on the previous next channel without changing channel CHANNEL UP DOWN Move to the current programme on the previous next channel and retune to that channel immediately Go to 1 BBC ONE Family Wanted nes 0 9 A channel can be navigated to directly by typing the a channel number in and then pressing OK If a wrong digit is pressed press LEFT ARROW to delete it As a channel number is typed iGuide will show information regarding that channel and the title of the programme currently showing on it OK If the banner is describing the programme currently being broadcast on a channel other than the one currently tuned to retune to that channel If that s not the case then act as if REC were pressed see below REC If the programme being looked at has a series link pattern delete it If that s not the case and the programme has a normal recording turn it into a series link pattern If that s not the case and the programme has a watch recording turn it into a normal recording If that s not the case then set up a recording CES fee v2 0 user guide Page 23 displayed This is similar to the now next banner displayed for a broadcast programme with the addition of a red caret on the progress bar at t
37. ng at the current time Tries to play the current recording NB this won t work if it s an upcoming timer that has not yet started Toggle the view of recordings and timers between alphabetical ordering and ordering by time that is by time and date of the broadcast If the currently selected row shows a recording or timer enters the Recording Edit page see below for it If the currently selected row shows a recording or timer which is part of a series link enters the edit screen for that pattern If the currently selected recording or timer is not part of a series link causes a Series link to be created based on the timed programme and then enters the edit screen for that pattern Show full information for the currently selected recording or timer in a popup window press any key to exit the window Set the playout precedence for a completed recording or delete the precedence if 0 pressed See OK below for playout mode If the currently selected row shows a completed recording or currently recording programme plays it If the currently selected row shows a folder enters it If the currently selected recording timer is an upcoming timer that is part of a series link pressing OK enters the Series Link Pattern Edit screen see below Ss WWE v2 0 user guide SWAP PIP Page 9 If the currently selected recording timer is an upcoming timer that is not part of a series link pressing OK enters
38. nre list to enable search by a particular genre ma ae a lt e v2 0 user guide Page 7 2 The Recordings and Timers Screen Er e RECORDINGS amp TIMERS 41h29 rec d 16h52 res d 79h free The Recordings and Timers screen shows _ Dr Who subfolders in the current folder recordings House O o 26 files 3 timers 1 series i El z Sat 5 May 00 15 02 20 FILMI Withnail amp So Mane available to play in the current folder and upcoming timers waiting to happen ordered by 808 Throw Momma from the Train time a a4 Silent Movie Fri 16 Jun 00 10 01 50 Wed 4 Jul 22 00 23 30 14 MINS Sun 6 May 00 00 01 25 19 MINS K THREE Tomb Raider At the top of the Recordings and Timers screen is a line representing the hard disk separated i i Page up Be Page down LEGE into two regions used dark turquoise in the images and unused light turquoise The disk oo SE i u u pm space taken by the currently selected recording me RECORDINGS amp TIMERS E eee 4 1h29 rec d 6h52 res d 79h free if post record or timer if pre record E itv ZJ Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo Ailing 816 C approximate is also shown as a portion of the Mie Star Trek ky a bar yellow in the lower image ee y 86 eee 2100 243 Stam aan Figures also show the number of hours n 23 00 28 35 recorded waiting to be recorded reserved BELT Waking Life Fri 26 dul 02 06 06 00 ini o peia aeee e A aR ar toque an
39. of various parts of the Load skin team file NONE display screen can be changed and background Py E gt FW lt images and skin files loaded and previewed k AN r A lt lt f a 7 M i A p N TN Key actions ye X WCancel OK Preview any changes made YELLOW Saves the current state of iGuide s skin and exits incidentally this action also causes iGuide to re parse MP3 files in the iguide directory so if you want new background music just upload the files and resave the current skin here BLUE Exits without saving Three options are available BACKGROUND IMAGE All JPEG images in the iguide directory that are the correct size for a background 720x576 pixels are listed here along with two other options NONE Use a solid fill colour Logo tint amp background below instead of a background image BROADCAST Show the currently broadcast programme as a backdrop to iGuide Note that pixels on the Toppy screen are not symmetrical Thus if you are creating an image to use as a background it is best to create an image of 720x540 for a 4 3 standard screen or 720x405 for a 16 9 widescreen and then stretch it to 720x576 pixels Images provided with iGuide are designed for 16 9 screen COLOUR LOGO TINT amp BACKGROUND in the image above Various different parts of the screen can be assigned different colours Pressing LEFT RIGHT ARROW cycles through BAR COLOUR SELECTED BAR COLOUR
40. ries link pattern matches a future repeat of the programme It is possible to permanently delete such an archived UE v2 0 user guide Page 12 recording by deleting it a second time from the recordings timers screen when it is viewed there KEEP CONTIGUOUS RECORDINGS apart together MAY I SUGGEST Enables the May I Suggest feature of NAVIGATION The number of lines to scroll the EPG The apart setting places recordings of programmes in succession on the same channel in separate recording files This is easier to handle but means that padding between the two needs to be nil therefore the end of the first programme may actually be found in the recording of the second The together setting places recordings of contiguous programmes on a single channel into a single on disk recording and manages information to ensure that each appears separate from the others iGuide which attempts to predict programmes you may like but not yet know about based on your existing recordings The options are no which disables it or 5 10 or 15 suggestions See Use OK to set timer the section above for a full description of MIS ee page by when pressing the UP DOWN ARROW in the EPG grid screen while the highlighted programme is in either the first or last row Use LEFT RIGHT ARROW to choose one of full page the default behaviour all seven visible channels are replaced with the next previous seven full page keep current chann
41. rms Note that weekday names are assumed to refer to days beyond today if today were Tuesday then tue would refer to a week s time Note also that these keywords need to be expressed in English not the language of the currently active EPG view Time a time HHMM or time period HHMM HHMM which will coincide with the required programme A number of flags can also be added as single characters terminated with a period and a P create a series link pattern for the programme when found A create separate timers for all events matching D delete the timer 1f it exists rather than creating a timer if it doesn t Examples Today Doctor Who BBC3 Blue Peter Wed CBBC ITV2 23 11 2130 2200 Division of Labour Earlier versions of iGuide included the iGuideSMS functionality in the main TAP so why farm it out to a companion The basic rationale is this iGuideSMS deals with receiving SMS messages from the attached phone communicating messages to other TAPs and sending messages out again It doesn t care about the content of those messages iGuide analyses any message it receives from iGuideSMS acts upon it and returns an appropriate response to iGuideSMS to be sent back By splitting the functionality into two iGuideSMS can easily also provide SMS messaging services to other TAPs ret DE v2 0 user guide Page 27 The Support Files iGuide requires a number of support files to aid its confi
42. rogramme title If the programme currently selected in the grid is a NO INFORMATION event pressing OK triggers an attempt to get EPG information for the channel and repopulate the screen If that s not the case and the currently selected programme is on now pressing OK tunes to it Otherwise pressing OK acts as if REC were pressed see below This functionality is optional see the Configuration screen section below for information on enabling disabling this feature au v2 0 user guide REC WHITE PAUSE STOP INFO SLOW PLAY RECALL TEXT Page 6 If the programme currently selected in the grid has a series link recording pressing REC enters the Edit Pattern screen see below for this series link If that s not the case and the currently selected programme has a recording pressing REC tries to turn this into a series link recording If that s not the case and the currently selected programme has a watch timer pressing REC turns this into a Recording timer If that s not the case then pressing REC creates a Recording timer for the currently selected programme Note that it is only possible to set two simultaneous recordings If you try to set a third recording at the same time as two existing timers you will be warned of the clash in a popup press any key to continue As REC except that in the last instance a Watch timer is created
43. s containing required words and phrases in the appropriate language cymraeg igs polski igs and norsk igs are provided but iGuide will support as many languages as there are igs files at its start time NB english igs is also provided as an example but is not actually required 6 The Edit EPG View Screen The Edit EPG View screen allows channels to be reordered and hidden or unhidden within the current EPG view RED Hides or unhides the current channel Note that the Freeview Line Up EPG View acts as a master for all the others any channels hidden here are automatically and irrevocably hidden in all other views Channels hidden in the current view are indicated as such with a single strike through Channels hidden in the Freeview Line Up view are indicated as such with a double strike through Channels hidden in both the current and the Freeview Line Up views have a triple strike through YELLOW Saves the current state of the EPG view and exits to the Modify EPG Views screen BLUE Exits to the Modify EPG Views screen without saving OK Selects the current channel so that it can be moved up and down the list or if already in select mode cancels it UP DOWN ARROW Moves to the previous next channel or if in select mode moves the current channel up down the list CH UP DOWN Moves to the previous next page of channels or if in select mode moves the current channel up down one page in
44. s have been added into the iguide directory or config files manually edited EXIT iGuide Causes the TAP to unload itself from memory Pressing WHITE at any time while viewing one of the Configuration screens has the same effect CREDITS Use OK to select 1 got bored C IGUIDE v2 0 user guide Page 15 5 The Modify EPG Views Screen The Modify EPG View screen lists the current user defined EPG views and allows certain actions to be taken out on them The Modify EPG Views screen is entered from the Configuration screen EXIT will navigate to the EPG Views screen OK If in select mode drops the currently selected channel at its current position If not enters the Edit EPG View screen for the currently selected view RED Selects unselects the current view so that it can be moved up and down the list GREEN Allows you to rename the current view by entering Edit Mode see below YELLOW Creates a new EPG View if there s enough room for another one BLUE Deletes the currently selected EPG View YELLOW must be pressed next to complete the deletion any other key cancels UP DOWN ARROW Moves to the previous next EPG view or if in select mode moves the current view up down the list LEFT RIGHT ARROW Allows you to change the language of the currently selected view By default iGuide has an inbuilt English language pack Other languages can be added by creation of xxxxxx 1gs file
45. the Recording Timer Edit screen see below Note that playback will start at the current thumbnail position if a new thumbnail has been chosen more recently than the minutes playback changed otherwise the number of minutes into the recording stated in the information bar if changed otherwise the last position played Note also that if the currently selected recording has a precedence set playout mode is initiated In playout mode all recordings that have had a precedence set will be played out sequentially until all have been played Lower precedence recordings play before higher where two recordings have the same precedence set the earlier plays first Enable thumbnails mode if not already enabled and if the currently selected row is a completed recording show the first thumbnail for it If not already generated or the key pressed was PIP re generate thumbnails If thumbnails are already enabled and displayed and a completed recording currently selected cycle to its next thumbnail ee LN e v2 0 user guide Page 10 3 The EPG View Welcome Screen EAX lau 19 Gor 2007 11 00pm IGUIDE HELLO BYD eview holynieath The EPG View screen shows any EPG views currently created and indicates the language each will display in Two pseudo views are also displayed and available here Freeview line up or Freeview holynieath as in the image if you ve chosen Welsh for the display
46. the list Page 16 7 The Series Link Pattern Edit Screen EZZ Mon 24 Sep 2007 10 43pm GGUIDE EDIT PATTERN iGuide implements series links by creating patterns that a O match on to programmes in the EPG Generally the defaults eri 1800 0000 will match successfully but the settings can be adjusted in this screen Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun RED After confirmation by pressing YELLOW any other key cancels deletes the current series link and exits GREEN Refreshes the current pattern by removing any information regarding deleted recordings which match it Use this if a pattern should be matching a programme but isn t alternatively set a manual recording for the programme it will automatically be picked up by the series YELLOW Saves the current state of the series link and exits BLUE Exits without saving Use UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW to scroll through the options The available options are TITLE The title of the programme to match against Press OK to enter edit mode to change the title see below The title can contain wildcards oa matches any single character ae matches zero or more arbitrary characters As matches the next character exactly so allowing titles to include the characters and The title can contain multiple different patterns separated by the bar character Examples Pattern to match Possible matching programme titles Doctor Who Do
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