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Quoting Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:05:52 +0000 > Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Now I have got one of the Palms to work as a TV remote so it can >> control the various boxes connected to the TV. > > Which applet? Somehow I doubt it's open source. Each applet has it's > own data storage constraints and just because you can upload to one > does not mean you can read data in any other. You need the source code. > I can't remember off the top of my head, it was one that was bundled on a CD with the Palm. (I bought two Palms second hand). >> I thought it would be great if there was a way of downloading a TV >> guide from the internet onto my Palm (using a serial connection to the >> MythTV box). I was wondering if anyone knows of such an appication? > > It all depends on which applet on the Palm is meant to receive the TV > guide. How do you propose to view the guide on the Palm? There is > support for Calendar, Contacts, ToDo, Memos and a few others but if you > want an upload to a different applet then you are out of luck - the > database format would have to be reverse engineered. > > There is the possibility of writing your own open source software for > the Palm but it's not trivial. > > About the only thing you could do is upload the TV guide as plain text > into the Memos applet. pilot-link can do that for you. > Ahh I see. I think I'll investigate MythTV's TV guide a bit further then. I have managed to get MythTV installed now although due to the lack of a TV signal it won't do much as of yet. Still it is promising. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html