Custom Data Grabber including Sky UK Channel/EPG Grabber (11 Viewers)

[Iceman89610]

Ok, will have another look when I get a chance. On another note, I did a fresh install of my machine over the weekend and tried your 1.2.0.16 grabber with the 1.0.0.2 custom data grabber and when I did a scan it found all the channels and then crashed as the epg grab started. I couldn't see anything in the logs so I went back to my previous backup for a while. I have noticed that you have released a 1.0.0.3 custom grabber so I'll give that another try when I get a chance and see if I can get anywhere as this doesn't seem to like my system for some reason.

 

[CrashUK]

getting random recording? anyone had this.

 

[bob808]

I think I may know what is the problem if this works. Do you have your hard disks power down after a certain time?

Erm - possibly... let me check that

yep - was set to sleep after 20 mins... have disabled and updated to the new grabber... will see how it goes this time

 

[icam2]

Hi DJBlu a bug has just come to my notice. Last night a few channels moved around and the plugin is finding the change and putting in a new channel however it does not remove the old one it replaced so you end up with 2 (or more) of the same channel with the older one no longer working. Also the new channels always go to the end of the list not in the correct numbering. Cheers

 

[DJBlu]

I think I may know what is the problem if this works. Do you have your hard disks power down after a certain time?

Erm - possibly... let me check that

yep - was set to sleep after 20 mins... have disabled and updated to the new grabber... will see how it goes this time

Any update m8?

 

[DJBlu]

Hi DJBlu a bug has just come to my notice. Last night a few channels moved around and the plugin is finding the change and putting in a new channel however it does not remove the old one it replaced so you end up with 2 (or more) of the same channel with the older one no longer working. Also the new channels always go to the end of the list not in the correct numbering. Cheers

I am looking at the channel logic at the moment, I'll be uploading a new file in due course.

 

[CCob]

Hi DJBlu,

I am currently in the process of writing my own data grabber. I have put a single PID filter on and the packets seem to be coming though OK, but the content of the packet doesn't look correct and I have verified this by capturing a raw stream with dvbsnoop. How much of the transport stream header do you omit from the data being sent to the OnPacket event. Is it the mandatory 4 byte TS header or more?

Thanks.
CCob

 

[DJBlu]

Hi DJBlu,

I am currently in the process of writing my own data grabber. I have put a single PID filter on and the packets seem to be coming though OK, but the content of the packet doesn't look correct and I have verified this by capturing a raw stream with dvbsnoop. How much of the transport stream header do you omit from the data being sent to the OnPacket event. Is it the mandatory 4 byte TS header or more?

Thanks.
CCob

I should have explained better, the section decoder that is in the TSWriter does all the work and the Section Data is what is written to disk and passed to the custom data grabber.

If you are after the 188 byte packets then I can include a new method to pass raw data.

What is it you are trying to acheive if you don't mind me asking? Anything to improve the plugin I am all ears.

Thanks.

 

[CCob]

I should have explained better, the section decoder that is in the TSWriter does all the work and the Section Data is what is written to disk and passed to the custom data grabber.

If you are after the 188 byte packets then I can include a new method to pass raw data.

What is it you are trying to acheive if you don't mind me asking? Anything to improve the plugin I am all ears.

Thanks.

I tried your suggestion of setting the EPG to 10 mins timeout and refresh every 11 so that it's constantly tuned to a channel so that EMM's are sent to the CAM which does work well. The only problem with this is that the server is always on to achieve this.

So I want to write a plugin that tunes when necessary, e.g. hasn't seen an EMM message for the card's UA for a while, at which point then it goes into always on mode until it does. Once it sees an EMM again it enters a somewhat of a dormant mode until it's been a while again.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
CCob

 

[smursfter]

What is the status of the freesat implementation?
Do I just use the Sky UK Plugin or do I replace that with the freesat scanner dll?

Cheers