Report DVB Manager Week 6

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

Blog post at http://www.k-d-w.org/node/49

Last week wasn't as productive as I wished. Nevertheless, here's my report.

Thanks to Jürg's awesome work all D-Bus interfaces are working and can 
be accessed by other applications. Except, Manager's 
GetRegisteredDevices method which doesn't work because of bug 540730[1].

I tried to continue on storing EPG data, but unfortunately came across 
bug 539969[2] quickly.

Furthermore, all registered devices together with their channels.conf 
and timers are stored in GConf and are restored when the daemon is 
started again. That means that the daemon is actually usable and you 
don't have to re-compile the code to add a new timer. I extended the 
sample client, written in Python, too. It makes use of all the D-Bus 
interfaces of the daemon.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do next week, yet. This mostly 
depends on Zaheer's review that he did during the last week. So I might 
spend next week fixing issues Zaheer pointed out or continuing hacking 
on the EPG stuff, if possible. If that's not possible I'm going to start 
writing a separate GUI application that accesses the daemon through 
D-Bus. With that application it should be easy for users to scan for 
channels and schedule recordings.


[1]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540730
[2]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539969
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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl