How do i get XMLTV running for australia (5 Viewers)

[Anonymous]

there is now a new category and subtitle column in their data. Maybe the delay with the data this week is because they are reconfiguring their database

This would be great!!! Sam - get coding my friend :twisted:

 

[samuel337]

there is now a new category and subtitle column in their data. Maybe the delay with the data this week is because they are reconfiguring their database

This would be great!!! Sam - get coding my friend :twisted:

Done...the new version now spits out XMLTV files with category and subtitle information. The channelID link has also changed within the file - it now uses the long channelID as the linking ID between channels and programs, i.e. free.Melbourne.9 instead of just 9. This was to prevent conflicting channel numbers between two different providers. Also, you can now specify different timezones for different providers to account for time differences for the information from different providers. As a result, the syntax for this particular option has changed - you will need to update your config file if you used this function before.

Download it from the same link, http://members.dinkum.net.au/plai33/D1XMLTVGrabber.zip

Sam

 

[Anonymous]

Done...

Wow, less than 2 and a half hours turn around. That's amazing. Thanks Sam.


Look, someone has even designed you an icon to go with it!
http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1958

 

[samuel337]

For those in Melbourne and Sydney (and the other states when the data comes back online hopefully :lol: ) the new version will spit out categories as well. I have just tested this and it works with MP - your tvguide will now have genres attached to most programs.

Sam

 

[MissSophie]

I noticed that just this week D1XMLTVGrabber has stopped writing ABC information to the xml file. To test it, I excluded every channel except ABC - I can see the program download about 20kB of data and it shows each day being collected, but the resulting xml file is only 1kB and looks like this:

<tv source-data-url="http://www.d1.com.au/D1xmltv.asmx" source-info-name="D1">
<channel id="free.Sydney.2">
<display-name lang="en">ABC NSW</display-name>
</channel>
</tv>

All the other channels seem to work fine. Has anyone else experienced this?

edit: seems to be working now, must've been a glitch with D1

 

[Anonymous]

I was having a problem with channel 7 in Brisbane earlier in the week, but it is now resolved.

The descriptions are still empty for all the shows though Hope this is back soon.

One thing I have noticed is that the channel rename features seems to have broken with the new source. I will double check this at the weekend when I get a chance, unless someone else can confirm it now.

 

[samuel337]

One thing I have noticed is that the channel rename features seems to have broken with the new source. I will double check this at the weekend when I get a chance, unless someone else can confirm it now.

The channel rename features have nothing to do with the data source. If there's a problem, this it is to do with the program. Can you confirm it, because there shouldn't be a problem as far as I know...

Also, do the other states work again now?

Sam

 

[Anonymous]

Ok Sam, I've had a chance to look at the changes in the xml data. The <display-name> tag is OK. Its the <channel id> value that they have changed. It used to come up as the single channel number, it now comes up as the full name (including service and region). See here:


Old style

- <tv source-data-url="http://www.d1.com.au/D1xmltv.asmx" source-info-name="D1">
- <channel id="10">
  <display-name lang="en">Network TEN</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="2">
  <display-name lang="en">ABC Queensland</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="7">
  <display-name lang="en">Channel Seven</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="9">
  <display-name lang="en">Channel Nine</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="28">
  <display-name lang="en">SBS</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="31">
  <display-name lang="en">Briz 31</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <programme start="20040922000000 +1000" stop="20040922010000 +1000" channel="9">
  <title lang="en">Star Trek: Voyager</title> 
  <desc lang="en">FLESH AND BLOOD PART 2. The renegade Holograms have disabled Voyager and escaped to warp, but not before abducting Lt. Torres in hopes of benefiting from her expertise with holo-technology. Stars Kate Mulgrew and Robert Beltran. (PG)</desc> 
- <rating system="ABA">
  <value>PG</value> 
  </rating>
  </programme>
- <programme start="20040922000500 +1000" stop="20040922003000 +1000" channel="2">
  <title lang="en">Night and Day</title> 
  <desc lang="en">The brightest of lives can hide dark secrets. A compelling mixture of romance, comedy and thriller in a drama series unlike any other. (PG)</desc> 
- <rating system="ABA">
  <value>PG</value> 
  </rating>
  </programme>

New style

- <tv source-data-url="http://www.d1.com.au/D1xmltv.asmx" source-info-name="D1">
- <channel id="free.Brisbane.10">
  <display-name lang="en">Ten</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="free.Brisbane.2">
  <display-name lang="en">ABC</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="free.Brisbane.7">
  <display-name lang="en">Seven</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="free.Brisbane.9">
  <display-name lang="en">Nine</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="free.Brisbane.SBS">
  <display-name lang="en">SBS</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <programme start="20041105000000 +1000" stop="20041105010000 +1000" channel="free.Brisbane.9">
  <title lang="en">Birds of Prey</title> 
  <sub-title lang="en" /> 
  <desc lang="en" /> 
  <category lang="en">Action</category> 
- <rating system="ABA">
  <value>M</value> 
  </rating>
  </programme>
- <programme start="20041105002500 +1000" stop="20041105012000 +1000" channel="free.Brisbane.2">
  <title lang="en">Planet of the Clones</title> 
  <sub-title lang="en">Future Ark Pt 2</sub-title> 
  <desc lang="en" /> 
  <category lang="en" /> 
- <rating system="ABA">
  <value>PG</value> 
  </rating>
  </programme>

I think its this Channel id that is is screwing up my EPG in my GotTV/myHTPC setup.

The big thing for here, is that it is causing ABC to not show up in MP's EPG. Haven't tested this properly as I still can't use MP fulltime.

Still no programme descriptions yet. Hope they are planning to fix this.

I like the colour coding in MP that it now shows.

So, not a bug with your app. Just a change of D1's data. Don't know if the extended channel id means that some EPGs can't now use the display-name now. Do you think there is a work-around. At the moment I am having to do a find/replace on the whole xml file for each channel. :evil:

 

[samuel337]

Nope forbes, its not D1 its me. I changed the channel-id to be the full channel ID instead of just the number because some people were complaining of conflicting channel numbers when they grab foxtel data as well as FTA data (e.g. channel 28 on FTA is SBS, while 28 on foxtel is some other channel (Cartoon Network?) therefore if 28 was used as the channel ID, then there would be conflict).

I haven't tested it on GotTV but quick testing on GAM seems to reveal the same issue. Seems like GAM/GotTV isn't flexible enough to cope with it. I'll look into it when I get time, maybe add a option that allows you to set whether to use the channel number or the whole channel ID as the channel ID...

Sam

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the update Sam. Don't spend too much time on this. I think I can re-configure GotTV to accept them. Just haven't got round to it yet.