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So you have a Tv tuner on your GNU/Linux computer that uses the go7007 Linux Driver and can’t watch any live TV because no GNU/Linux program really supports it? Yeah right… it is supposed to work with MythTV but it doesn’t or it’s just so hard to set it up…

Well that’s what happened to me until now that I’ve decided to make my own python script that works along with some other programs to be able to watch live TV easily on my gnome desktop.

That’s what WisRemote 1.0 is about. Basically it’s a python script that eases the use of another nice program called wis-streamer that streams your go7007’s tv video directly to your network.

After an easy configuration, in which we configure WisRemote to watch our local channels, we will be able to watch live TV right from a go7007 device connected to our local computer or to a remote computer thanks to the magic of ssh and python.

By default, WisRemote has been designed to be launched from the command line, so if you tell it to stream a certain channel, you will them have to open vlc or mplayer to watch the video stream. In order to facilitate this, I have included an extra option thanks to which it’s possible to control every single action from gnome’s tray.

Screenshots

Dependencies

Needed packages:

-python
-wis-streamer

Optional packages:

-python-gtk2 (for the gnome-panel tray)
-python-paramiko (for controlling wis-streamer remotely using ssh)
-vlc (for watching the TV stream)

Download

Download WisRemote 1.0 now

Extra Icons

I’ve made an icon set for my cable TV provider’s (Euskaltel) channels also available for download:

Download localized icon set for Euskaltel

If you make any other localized icon set, feel free to send it to me so I can post it here.

Notes

I have just tested this script on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, though it should work in most GNU/Linux distributions.

About the go7007 driver and wis-streamer, I know that it’s installation (at least on Ubuntu) is hard because both the driver and the streamer application have to be patched in order to work. To help you guys a little, let me give you the patched source codes:

The go7007 patched driver for Ubuntu

The patched wis-streamer for Ubuntu

Things to do

I would like to have time to add some more features but it’s going to be impossible until summer. So if any of you have time, you could try adding the following:

-Recording support using gorecord
-Remote file streaming using vlc and its transcode option

Rereferences

Wis-Streamer

go7007 Linux Driver

Discussion about the go7007 driver at the Ubuntu forums

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