Custom Data Grabber including Sky UK Channel/EPG Grabber (3 Viewers)

[IanJ]

Hi,

I had checked the box to give me the extra prog info (HD, SUB, W etc) and got it ok, but then unchecked it and re-grabbed expecting to lose it all......but it's all still there.......no way to remove?

Ian.

 

[DJBlu]

Hi,

I had checked the box to give me the extra prog info (HD, SUB, W etc) and got it ok, but then unchecked it and re-grabbed expecting to lose it all......but it's all still there.......no way to remove?

Ian.

The EPG will not be overwritten with a fresh grab. The only way to remove it is to clear all channels and grab again.

 

[Atomic7431]

ok thanks for the input and great work

when i search for a tv program and then goto record it, i dont get the option from that menu to series link record. Not sure wether you know or not or if you have even implemented it through the search feature but would be nice to see. I have series record via the tv guide record advanced menu and working just fine.

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Have you configured Series Link option to appear on the quick menu? (its done via MePo config program)

Cheers,

J.

 

[DJBlu]

Hi there,

Have you configured Series Link option to appear on the quick menu? (its done via MePo config program)

Cheers,

J.

Cheers Jay,

I think what he's on about is recording from the Search function and not the TV Guide.

Its something that has to be added to MediaPortal as it just brings up the record menu of the current programme.

Its not something in my plans but I'm sure if someone who is good with the TV Plugin could take a look at it.

 

[gloomyandy]

You'll be pleased to know I have just thrown an old Pinnacle DVB-T card in my dev machine and am looking into EIT from freeview.

I can understand how it is frustrating but the plugin was developed for DVB-S only. I haven't looked into combining channels but it should be safe to select the Add/Update channels as it will only update DVB-S tuning details.

If you have select

Add/Update Channels
Update EPG

and de-select everything else. This will update and add new channels without moving anything around.

Ref: Channel 301. Have you selected this channel in the DVB EPG grabber?

Hi DJBlu,
I'll look forward to seeing how you get on with the DVB-T stuff! No frustration here, although it seems complex, the above along with the sky grabber is way better than things used to be using the web-epg!

As soon as I get chance I will grab the latest update and give the Add/Update and update EPG settings a try...

As to 301, actually I haven't tried using the DVB-T EPG, many moons ago when I used web epg for lots of channels I had all sorts of issues with the DVB EPG entries over-writing the web epg entries and as a result I've tended to avoid the DVB-T epg ever since. I should probably try it again as I'm sure things will have changed. Do you think that it will be OK to mix sky epg and DVB-T epg grabbing?

Oh and one other thing. I had my schedule setup to grab everyday at 5:30am (rather than the default every 3hrs), but I did not seem to be getting any epg updates, a manual grab worked fine. I've just switched to a 3hr update schedule to see if that will work. Has anyone else had problems when using a daily update schedule? I will test further when I get chance but have only just noticed this...

Thanks again

Andy

 

[IanJ]

DJBlu,

If you don't mind me asking, do your SVN's overwrite TSReader.ax.............reason I ask is because playing back recordings and using FFWD is very stuttery/jumpy/freezes.
I remember on 1.2alpha it was the same but dropping in a hacked version from the forums made it very smooth......so either your install sets it back, or the working TSReader.ax never made it to 1.2RC (which I suspect!).

Ian.

 

[psykix]

DJBlu,

If you don't mind me asking, do your SVN's overwrite TSReader.ax.............reason I ask is because playing back recordings and using FFWD is very stuttery/jumpy/freezes.
I remember on 1.2alpha it was the same but dropping in a hacked version from the forums made it very smooth......so either your install sets it back, or the working TSReader.ax never made it to 1.2RC (which I suspect!).

Ian.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...grabber-plugins-96767/index54.html#post782859

 

[DJBlu]

DJBlu,

If you don't mind me asking, do your SVN's overwrite TSReader.ax.............reason I ask is because playing back recordings and using FFWD is very stuttery/jumpy/freezes.
I remember on 1.2alpha it was the same but dropping in a hacked version from the forums made it very smooth......so either your install sets it back, or the working TSReader.ax never made it to 1.2RC (which I suspect!).

Ian.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...grabber-plugins-96767/index54.html#post782859

I have made no changes to the TSReader however a new one is installed when you run the SVN installer.

I would be careful using an older version of the TSReader with newer SVN's as it can cause unwanted errors.

If you can get a patch file for the code changes I can take a look at putting it into the RC1 and uploading a new TSReader.

 

[DJBlu]

You'll be pleased to know I have just thrown an old Pinnacle DVB-T card in my dev machine and am looking into EIT from freeview.

I can understand how it is frustrating but the plugin was developed for DVB-S only. I haven't looked into combining channels but it should be safe to select the Add/Update channels as it will only update DVB-S tuning details.

If you have select

Add/Update Channels
Update EPG

and de-select everything else. This will update and add new channels without moving anything around.

Ref: Channel 301. Have you selected this channel in the DVB EPG grabber?

Hi DJBlu,
I'll look forward to seeing how you get on with the DVB-T stuff! No frustration here, although it seems complex, the above along with the sky grabber is way better than things used to be using the web-epg!

As soon as I get chance I will grab the latest update and give the Add/Update and update EPG settings a try...

As to 301, actually I haven't tried using the DVB-T EPG, many moons ago when I used web epg for lots of channels I had all sorts of issues with the DVB EPG entries over-writing the web epg entries and as a result I've tended to avoid the DVB-T epg ever since. I should probably try it again as I'm sure things will have changed. Do you think that it will be OK to mix sky epg and DVB-T epg grabbing?

Oh and one other thing. I had my schedule setup to grab everyday at 5:30am (rather than the default every 3hrs), but I did not seem to be getting any epg updates, a manual grab worked fine. I've just switched to a 3hr update schedule to see if that will work. Has anyone else had problems when using a daily update schedule? I will test further when I get chance but have only just noticed this...

Thanks again

Andy

Just looked at the scheduler coding and it looks like there is an error. Thanks for the spot.

Ref: 301 Channel.

If you select the channels that you want to get EPG for in the DVB EPG section and make sure you select "Grab EPG for selected channels only" this will stop it overwriting EPG grabbed from the Sky UK grabber.

Hope this helps.