Report DVB Manager Week 8

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Blog post at http://www.k-d-w.org/node/51

I didn't do much last week. Partly, because bug 539969 still keeps me 
from continuing working in the EPG part.

What did change last week is that each Device must be part of a 
DeviceGroup now. All devices in a DeviceGroup must be of same type and 
share one channels.conf and recordings' dir. That means that each 
DeviceGroup has its own Recorder and ChannelList D-Bus service now. A 
DeviceGroup becomes helpful when it contains more than one device. You 
can schedule timers that overlap and dvb-daemon distributes them across 
the devices that no conflicts arise.

Although, I didn't test it, I'm almost sure that it works and I already 
ordered a second DVB-T adapter to ensure that it's really working.

Next week, I'm going to find a way to distinguish TV channels from radio 
channels (both internally and through D-Bus) and write a GUI to access 
the Scanner parts.

Last but not least, does somebody know how I can retrieve a list of DVB 
devices that are installed in a computer? I tried HAL, but it seems that 
it doesn't support that.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl