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<blockquote data-quote="technoweary" data-source="post: 1270024" data-attributes="member: 153083"><p>Hey Brian, you can link the Freeview grabbed EPG across to some of the Freesat Channels in the TV server setup configuration. I used to do this and it worked OK and the EPG was accurate for the majority of the channels. I think RT was aproblem as the UK RT on Freeview did not follow the Europe/International Freesat channel programming. Things like Channel 4 and 4HD were very similar for the London programming. XMLTV works very well but I found it could be a bit unreliable due to the sky EPG info I was trying to grab was reconfigured a lot. Probably to stop folks grabbing it reliably! The best way I found was to subscribe to a listings site that allowed grabbing. You get reliable info and up to three weeks programming sometimes. Not too expensive. My current situation is that I have unreliable HD on Freeview with good EPG and good HD channels with no EPG on Freesat. Added to which the media centre has not got a network link at the moment so I cannot use XLMTV. I was waiting in the hope that some work may be done on the EPG Grabber but as CyberSimian pointed out the development on MP1 is not going forward much nowadays. The reality is that the age of the "Smart TV" is here and a sophisticated Media Centre is no longer required.</p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p>TW</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technoweary, post: 1270024, member: 153083"] Hey Brian, you can link the Freeview grabbed EPG across to some of the Freesat Channels in the TV server setup configuration. I used to do this and it worked OK and the EPG was accurate for the majority of the channels. I think RT was aproblem as the UK RT on Freeview did not follow the Europe/International Freesat channel programming. Things like Channel 4 and 4HD were very similar for the London programming. XMLTV works very well but I found it could be a bit unreliable due to the sky EPG info I was trying to grab was reconfigured a lot. Probably to stop folks grabbing it reliably! The best way I found was to subscribe to a listings site that allowed grabbing. You get reliable info and up to three weeks programming sometimes. Not too expensive. My current situation is that I have unreliable HD on Freeview with good EPG and good HD channels with no EPG on Freesat. Added to which the media centre has not got a network link at the moment so I cannot use XLMTV. I was waiting in the hope that some work may be done on the EPG Grabber but as CyberSimian pointed out the development on MP1 is not going forward much nowadays. The reality is that the age of the "Smart TV" is here and a sophisticated Media Centre is no longer required. Hope this helps. TW [/QUOTE]
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