MV: MHW Tutorial

This is a from-the-start-and-assume-nothing tutorial on setting up MV to use MHW. It looks long, but that's only because of the 'assume nothing' bit.

The example I will use is the Dutch MHW data. It assumes the plugin is already installed.

If I say 'Press DREAM->Input Menu->X' it means 'press dream on the remote, select the item input menu, then select the item X'.

Setup

You must be running the full version of MV (not the lite version) to do the setup.

Check mhwepg is on your box. That's the program which actually reads the data. It should be at /var/bin/mhwepg or /bin/mhwepg

Start the plugin

Press DREAM->Input Menu

Check that 'Storage Dir' is set to a storage media you have e.g. USB
Deselect 'AutoDirs'
Deselect all four of the checkboxes on the left of the screen, except the top one.
Using the selector to the right of the checkbox, select 'MHW (NL)'.
Press LAME 3 times to exit the plugin.

switch channels to Nederland 1

Start the plugin.

You should see a green 'M' appear at the top of the screen, meaning that MV is reading MHW data. If not: try telnetting to your box and look at /var/tmp/mhwepg.out. The 'M' should disappear after 40 seconds or so.

Press '0' to reload data.

You should see a green 'U' appear at the top of the screen.

Press DREAM->Alias Manager

On the left are channels which MV has read data for via MHW. On the right are the channels from your user bouquet. Select a channel from the left, then one from the right to tell MV which names correspond. If you don't want to see data for a channel on the left, select IGNORE on the right.
Once ALL channels on the left have disappeared, press LAME twice.

Press 0 to reload data.

Press 4 to switch to view 4

You should now have > 2 programs showing for the channels you selected on the right in the alias manager! Congratulations!

Daily Usage

Once setup is done, you can use the LITE version of MV if you like. To keep the data up to date, you need to open MV at e.g. Nederland 1/2/3 every couple of days. You can also do it from within MV by selecting a program in Nederland 1/2/3 and pressing TV (always update data) or OK (switch to channel and update data if necessary).