Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (3 Viewers)

rlevis

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    thesystemera, I purchased my HTPC from you! If you come up with a solution then please let me know. I've only got EPG until Thursday night.

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    Ross.
     

    thesystemera

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    Hey Ross.... Yip we are all in the same boat... I've had some success with extracting the guide from the DVB-EPG in 1.1rc1...

    Seems to work for the FreeviewHD but sadly no SKY data... I imagine we are all looking in to this with great urgency lol :)
     

    thesystemera

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    Good news... Using this application in conjunction with 4TR has lead me to some success, including SKY content.. I don't believe it is 7 days though.... Could be wrong...

    With the EPG transferred via FreeviewHD there is supposedly a 14 day EPG, would love to get hold of that.
     

    rlevis

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    It takes about 10 minutes to run but does appear to create a TVGuide.xml that works in MP.

    I will miss the BBC World listings not being merged into TV1's early hours as done by epg.pvr.geek.nz. This was very useful for me as I record "Click" and some other programs, and don't have Sky. Being a software developer I may try to write a program to take care of this.
     

    Pommedan

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    I can confirm it works in MP 1.0 Final (newer versions i would presume to be ok as well) - i added the xmltv.dtd file created from mentalindustries epg freeviewnz i was using previously, into the same folder as the newly created djkxml tvguide.xml before importing and mapping channels. Im not sure if this made any difference as i didnt try it without this file.

    However i have just noticed that ive lost sundays and mondays epg next week which i did have this morning. Ill check into it

    i just updated again and got sundays epg back - not sure what happened. will see how it goes during the week
     

    Pommedan

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    ok. i had problems with times/days in the tvguide being out of sync etc which made the guide fairly useless. however i stumbled onto Anybody notice that the epg.geek epg listings are not available now? which rvangelder has a link to a zip file which scrapes the official freeview epg dvb-t source. the output xml is named something like freeview.xml (so the name needs to be changed to tvguide.xml i think) Times and dates in the tvguide seem to be ok and has scraped up to next tues - 7days

    however it does not do sky content
     

    rlevis

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    Really? That's a big shame. I haven't actually tried it yet as I don't want to loose the BBC World programs in the TV1 listings while I've still got them. I was gearing up to change over on Thursday. What sort of time issues are you having? Some or all programs listed on the wrong days?
     

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