Dish/Bev EPG grabber released in SVN.

[CodeMonkey]

Originally Posted by ASiDiE

Nox71... you are correct, it's just going to rename and put in order or just put your channels in order (by SID). This app does not fix the issue where you would like to hit the number of the channel and go to it. Don't know if anyone is working on that, but I am sure in the future, it will be fixed.

I believe that is corrected in MP as I did it There is an option in MP config I think on the TV pane that says something like US or EU channel selection (can't remember exactly). With this set in US mode it will go to the channel number and not the index into the channel table (works on the guide too). I can't say if that made it into TVServer or not.

[Nox71]

Sorry Codemonkey there is no option like that one in the TVServer

By the way Gemx now the guide is perfect, no missing info good work and many thanks (thanks goes to Asdie too ). It's because of coder like you that i am starting to give a try on MP instead of my current solution SageTV. The only thing left is the channel numbering, if i could get it to work like i want i will probably switch to MP.

Again thanks to you guys

[ASiDiE]

I never seem to have a problem with the order... This is what I usually do get all my channels in order. I do a full scan of 110 and 119. I then use gemx program to number the channels. In the TV server setup I then hit the name at the top and sort all the channels by their name. Because I am using numbers at that point, it puts them all in order. I then remove channels 539 and on. At this point, they should be in pretty good order. You will need to go through and remove some channels that have numbers of 19xxx. They seem to be left in there. I then import my perfect 63 channel analog list. This all comes in at the bottom so I need to sort again. I click on Types to sort them by analog and then dvb-s and then on name again. This gets most of the analog channels at the beginning. I will then need to go down and move channels 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 to the front of the list. 2 is under 20's and so on. Once that is done... My list is complete. I usually export out... so I don't have to do this again

Hope this helps.

[CodeMonkey]

Originally Posted by Nox71

By the way Gemx now the guide is perfect, no missing info good work and many thanks (thanks goes to Asdie too ).

Hey gemx/ASiDiE, did you guys make changes recently to fix the missing shows problem? I haven't refreshed my source tree in the past few days, what did I miss?

[ASiDiE]

I have not seen any change in the chagnelog or any of the files that GEMX was working on this change... I will test out the latest build and get back with you. I would assume that if GEMX fixed something.. he would let us know.

[coeus]

Looks like some changes were made today by GEMX. I'll download the latest SVN and try it out agai.

[coeus]

Hmm, now it doesn't seem to be grabbing anything. I'm grabbing from channel 119. It worked before the latest SVN but like others have said here some were not fetching the epg. However with the latest MP SVN I got (Revision:14162) no data is grabbed for channels.

[plemen]

Originally Posted by CodeMonkey

I believe that is corrected in MP as I did it There is an option in MP config I think on the TV pane that says something like US or EU channel selection (can't remember exactly). With this set in US mode it will go to the channel number and not the index into the channel table (works on the guide too). I can't say if that made it into TVServer or not.

Hi CodeMonkey - thanks for your many contributions to DVB. I'm starting to use mediaportal and it's working well but its a killer to have to scroll through all of the channels to get to channel 802 Would it be possible for you to re-add the channel numbering feature?

(Sorry this is not meant to be a thread hijack)

Thanks in advance.

[IcePickrg]

I think this is hand in hand with epg, so a good place to post it.

I know the across the pond, they don't use any type of channel numbering, other then "indexing" or aka Favorites.

I explained to Frodo (and others) about a week back what the big D is with channel numbering. Finally they understand when you want to go to channel 485, you should be able to hit 4-8-5 on your RC. And when you hear footsteps coming down the stairs, you should be able to hit 1-0-7 on your RC! But only NA uses this concept. The provider assigns a channel number to channels that they broadcast, so when we go baby-sit at friends, we can hit 107 on the RC and get Comedy Central.

I took it upon myself to see if I could make a change for this. So far, I'm pretty good at reading code, but not so good at changing it. So I'll share my information, and perhaps someone with far better skill then I can fix it.

There is already a check box under TV setup that accommodates this, index by something - non US. Following that code through, it ends up to be 4 places to change code.

TvFullScreen.cs:
There is code in here to force a channel change after 2 keystrokes - needs to be taken out
There is code in here to force a previous channel when 0 is hit. Needs to be moved to the timeout section, and checked for only 0 before a prev channel.

tvguidebase.cs
Same sort of things, but no channel changes... just jumps.

tvminiguide.cs
Same sort of things.

Finally, TVHOME.cs
public void ZapToChannelNumber(int channelNr, bool useZapDelay)

Although it says channelnumber, it's actually using indexing in group to zap. This needs to be change to look at the column channelnumber in the table tvdetails.

Analog cable is the only channel I see populating this column which is good. USUALY NA channel numbers don't overlap. And/or that is where channel mapping would come in handy. Channel number zapping should obey groups, to avoid conflict with same channel numbers.

The last thing to note on this is there exists a:
public void ZapToChannel(Channel channel, bool useZapDelay)

This is used to zap by index, so implementing the above ideas should not conflict.

One day, I'll be able to fix this myself, but until that day, I'll be happy to read code!

[jdugas]

Does this grabber support using Dish and Bev at the same time? I have Dish set up right now and was able to grab all 7 days of the EPG without any issues.... but I have been trying to get it to work at the same time for Bev as well and when I have both set up... I cant get any EPG at all... I was able to get the Dish EPG once with both Sats set up... but have not been able to reproduce those results.

Could this be due to the grabber tracking channels by SID? Dish and Bev have alot of channels that share the same SID... so I am thinking maybe that could be an issue.

Anyway... maybe I am just not figuring this out properly. Any input is appreciated.

Thanks!