DVB EPG + XML EPG... Is It Possible?

[jestermgee]

I live in Adelaide Australia and have been using MP for TV viewing for a while now and haven't had too many issues at all. Great work ont he project so far

I have simply been using the EPG provided by the TV networks wwhich is perfectly fine for me except as many of the Aus population may know, SBS doesn't broadcast EPG data for more than the current and next program.

I have an XML scrapper that I have configured to grab only SBS data and output to XML and I can manually import this to MP with the XML plugin included with the TV server. I don't want to gather the other channels with the scrapper software because it takes ages to complete and is hard to get times and mappings sorted.

I want to import channels from both sources but I can't manage to get this to happen automatically. The XML importer says it will check for a new file every minute and import if one is found BUT the scrapper just modifies the file and it never seems to import it automatically.

So does anyone know how to configure an EPG from 2 different sources (DVB and XML)? Is there another XML plugin that would work better (has an import schedule time rather than an auto detect)?

[AlfredENeuma]

Hi,

I think your question is at the wrong thread ("If you have an updated script for web-epg or xmltv, or new tuningdetails for your country, then please share it here!"), but anyway:

Yes, it is possible. I am doing exactly the same thing. The EPG of most of the channels is grabbed from DVB, just for some channels with WebEPG and the XMLTV-plugin.

And: The XMLTV-plugin really checks the file every minute; you easily can check this if you just open your xml-file and save it again (to give it a new file date), and the plugin will update.

What you have to do (all in the TV server configuration):

1. Select the channels which you want to grab via DVB-EPG and deselect the ones you want to update with xmltv (EPG 1.jpg)
   
   
2. Configure the DVB-EPG general (EPG 2.jpg)
   
   
3. Configure the XMLTV-Plugin (EPG 3.jpg).
   
   Take care that your channels are mapped, do not forget to save the mapping. But I think this should be done as you write "Manual import is working".
   

Good luck

Alfred

[doornjoostje]

Hi Alfred,

Nice to hear!
My situation is as following. I've fot DVB-C EGP running, but only for the day and the 3 days after.
The XMLTV plugin gets data for 2 weeks.
What I want is that the XMLTV EGP is grabbed 1st and 2nd the DVB.
So the DVB is for 4 days, but very good and the XMLTV for the 10 days after that.

[jestermgee]

That's what I have setup to a T.

I have a scraper that runs on my server and updates the XML file but the issue I have is that the XML importer must look at the created date, not the modified date and all the scraper does is modify the file and the importer never triggers.

What I might try (since I know someone now has this working) is to create a script that deletes this XML file 10 minutes before the scrapper is set to download the info. Then a brand new file will be created. It's just more tinkering that I have to keep track of.

[caveman]

I use a combination of smal .net app and bat file.
The .net app starts my bat file
wich gets my xml TV file
moves it to the correct folder
and waits for x second, so the import should be done.
If you want it?