UK SKYTV Set top box

[jimbo19]

Nice guide Bolders - is there anyway to grab more than one type of data ?
i.e. I have a floppy DTV-S2 with Cam for my sky , but I also have a hybrid dvb-s dvb-t card that allows me to get freeview and freesat ,
so if possible would like web epg for all three , so I have 14 day guide data for all channels

[bolders]

Hi Jimbo

Im afraid i dont know if you can grab more than one type of data or if im sure I know exactly what you mean by that lol.

Are you refering to having the same channel on different sources which have a slightly different schedules. For exmple I get UKTV History via NTL and also from my DVB-T tuner. The NTL version transmits for the whole day but the DVB-T version only transmits for half the day hence I need two seperate epg listings.
In this instance I do not merge the channels - I have two channel mappings instead. When getting the guide data I can get both listings from radio times. There is guide data for UKTV history cable/satellite and one for freeview. I simply assign the cable/sat version to the NTL version of the channel and the freeview verson to the DVB-T channel.

Most of my DVB chanels are identical to the NTL channels so I merge them leaving only 1 listing for the channel in the tv guide. The only other channel I have that is different is virgin 1.

Not sure if Ive helped at all or if ive completely missunderstood your question. If you can give some examples (channel names and what tuner they are on etc) I will try to help you figure something out but at this point im only realy informed in areas where Ive had to figure things out for my particular setup. I dont have DVB-S (yet) so Im not sure on what channels you get or how they would differ from your sky or DVB channels.

bolders

[jimbo19]

Hi Bolders , essentially that is what I mean , sorry if I didn't explain it very well . I have managed to get most of the epg i need using the excellent xmltv gui and post processors in it. It's way faster than the command line method . Takes well under a minute for everything !! Only problem I'm having now is working out how to combine and map all the channels that are the same !!! i.e. BBC on freeview , freesat and sky - lol


Cheers

Jim