YARDWiz - Yet Another Recording Downloader for the Wiz

Note

I am no longer developing/maintaining YARDWiz as I don't have a Beyonwiz DP series PVR anymore.

Introduction

YARDWiz is a simple crossplatform GUI front end for prl's getWizPnP prgram. getWizPnP is a command line program that allows you (among other things) to list and download recordings from a Beyonwiz DP series PVR over the network using the WizPnP interface. YARDWiz draws a lot of inspiration from the Two Wizards WizZilla software.

Screenshots

Linux	Windows	OSX

Downloads

Downloads are available from the releases page

Help

Help is available on the Wiki

Requirements

YARDWiz has been tested successfully on Windows XP - 10, Ubuntu 10.04-14.04, OpenSuse 11.4, Fedora 14 & 15 and Mac OSX 10.8 - 10.10 with python 2.6 & 2.7, wxPython 2.8. It should work on other Windows and Linux flavours.

Windows

A windows installer is available which is self contained and doesn't require the installation of python, wxpython or getWizPnP.

OSX

An OSX application is available which is self contained and doesn't require the installation of python, wxpython or getWizPnP.

Linux

An source archive is available which contains a compiled version of getWizPnP

From source

Before running you will need to install the following software:

• python >=2.6 and < 3.0 (http://www.python.org)
• wxpython 2.8+ (http://www.wxpython.org)
• getWizPnP (http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/GetWizPnP_Release)
  • download a compiled version or install the perl package from source as per the installation notes in getWizPnP README.txt

Installation

Windows

Run the windows installer, this is self contained and doesn't require the prior installation of python, wxpython or getWizPnP.

OSX

Mount the disk image (.dmg) and drag the YARDWiz app to your applications folder.

From source

Currently no other OS specific installers have been created, just a simple python setup.py script. To install, unzip the source archive, then:

• Windows - run python setup.py install in a command window (you may need to run it as Administrator).
• Linux & OSX - sudo python setup.py install

For easy access to the application, setup.py creates shortcuts in the Windows Start Menu/Linux Gnome Menu. Or on Linux and OSX, you can just type 'yardwiz' in a terminal.

Uninstalling

Uninstalling on Windows

Run the windows uninstaller.

Uninstalling on OSX

Delete the YARDWiz app from your applications folder.

When installed from source

To uninstall (assuming you still have a copy of the source :):

• Windows - run python setup.py uninstall in a command window (you may need to run it as Administrator).
• Linux & OSX - sudo python setup.py uninstall

Known issues

• If you modify the default getwizpnp.conf (Windows) or .getwizpnp (Linux/Mac) you may break YARDWiz.
• On Windows when running from pythonw.exe, the getwizpnp.exe subprocess has proven troublesome to kill (i.e if you want to pause or stop a download). I've had to fallback to using the taskkill.exe program that is included in most recent versions of Windows (XP and later). Taskkill.exe is not included in Windows XP Home edition and I don't know if it is included in Windows Vista/7 basic/home/starter editions. If this is an issue, an alternative is to download PsTools.zip from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896683 and extract PsKill.exe to somewhere on your PATH. YARDWiz will then attempt to use pskill instead.
• Downloads may fail with the getWizPnP error - "Search for WizPnP devices failed" when connecting via a device name, even after listing programs succeeded using that device name. This has only occurred on one Win 7 Ultimate PC that I'm aware of and the issue does not occurr on the same users Win XP PC. Workaround (thanks to netmask from the Beyonwiz forum): connect using IP or IP:Port syntax. Another workaround has been implemented in 0.3.1, clear the Wiz server text box and click the connect button to let YARDWiz discover your Wiz.
• The app really should use a lawnmower icon...