Hotbird EPG (1 Viewer)

[psykix]

I have 6 tuners, tuner 6 is connected up to my motorised dish, but I am using it as fixed on 13deg E.

The other 5 tuners all use DJBlu's plugin and are on a fixed dish pointing at 28.2deg E.

I have a separate group named Hotbird 13deg East, and this has a full channel scan in it of just 13deg East.

Now.. Using DJBlu's plugin I can get EPG data for the Sky ITA channels, however I need to get EPG for channels outside of that bouquet.

It seems that the main problem I have is that there are channels from multiple countries on 13deg E?

Is there any way to accomplish this? Thinking about it, even if I could just get now/next would be ok, since I usually only browse 13deg and won't be scheduling recordings from there.

The important thing is that any method used mustn't affect the UK channels on the other 5 tuners!

 

[mm1352000]

Hi psykix

I would have thought that mapping the HB 13 channels to *only* tuner 6, and then enabling EPG grabbing on them would work fine. As long as the channels are not mapped to the other 5 tuners, the extra channels can't have any effect on them. Have I missed something?

mm

 

[psykix]

Thanks for the reply.. Just not sure how to grab EPG on that tuner only?

Well I told it to grab DVB-EPG on Marcopolo but it didn't seem to populate the EPG..

What am I doing wrong? Wrong channel?

 

[mm1352000]

Just not sure how to grab EPG on that tuner only?

You can edit the tuner settings in TV Server configuration by going to the tuner list, select a tuner that you don't want to grab EPG, click "edit", untick grab EPG, then save. Repeat for each tuner as necessary. Wiki notes are -->here<--.

That seems unnecessary - the channels aren't mapped to the other tuners so TV Server implicitly knows it can't use those tuners for grabbing EPG for those channels.

What am I doing wrong? Wrong channel?

No idea, sorry. It is difficult to help with something like this without access to the satellite. The basic principles are:
1. Enable the timeshifting and/or idle EPG grabber (link).
2. Select your channels and tick store data only for the selected channels (link).

mm

 

[psykix]

Just not sure how to grab EPG on that tuner only?

You can edit the tuner settings in TV Server configuration by going to the tuner list, select a tuner that you don't want to grab EPG, click "edit", untick grab EPG, then save. Repeat for each tuner as necessary. Wiki notes are -->here<--.

That seems unnecessary - the channels aren't mapped to the other tuners so TV Server implicitly knows it can't use those tuners for grabbing EPG for those channels.

What am I doing wrong? Wrong channel?

No idea, sorry. It is difficult to help with something like this without access to the satellite. The basic principles are:
1. Enable the timeshifting and/or idle EPG grabber (link).
2. Select your channels and tick store data only for the selected channels (link).

mm

Thanks for the reply.. I kind of figured it out - however I need to try to find which channels transmit the EPG data on Hotbird.

I tried Marcopolo (which I used to use when I had a Dreambox) but that doesn't grab anything.. Also seemed to remember Alice being used at one point!

Hopefully someone knows which channels I need to be selecting..