Mapping the Guide to the Channels (1 Viewer)

[egandt]

I just finished getting Media Portal installed, I now have both my OTA and QAM channels playing back in the My TV Plugin, however the problem is now getting the Guide to work correctly.

Problems:
1. Since I have 2 tuners, that means I need parts from the OTA and Part for the Cable guides at Zap2It, so far I can only get 1 of the 2 guides at a time in xmltv.
2. The names from XMLTV are not what I want to use, so I need to remap them.
3. There are multiple copies of NBC, CBS ..., so I need them all to show the listing, ie map 1 guide channel to multiple tuner channels

Thanks for your assistance,
ERIC



TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2
MediaPortal Skin: Default
Windows Version: Windows XP x64 SP2
CPU Type: Core2 Duo 3.33GHZ
HDD: 1.5TB
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard: ASUS
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Sound Card: HDZ XPLOSION 7.1
Sound Card AC3: Optical OUT
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1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: HD HomeRun
2. TV Card Type: ATSC,QAM
2. TV Card Driver: latest
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Power Supply: 800Watt Silverstone
Remote: MX3000
TV: Westinghose LM42-W2
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI

 

[egandt]

Think I fixed it, though in a very messy way:

1. Since I have 2 tuners, that means I need parts from the OTA and Part for the Cable guides at Zap2It, so far I can only get 1 of the 2 guides at a time in xmltv.
XMLTV cannot do this so instead get 2 seperate listings and combine using tv_cat

2. The names from XMLTV are not what I want to use, so I need to remap them.
XMLTV can not do this, so I wrote a nice perl script to do this for me
3. There are multiple copies of NBC, CBS ..., so I need them all to show the listing, ie map 1 guide channel to multiple tuner channels
Still working on this as I will need yet another set of listings to get this data

So what does my script do, well basically this is a hash at the top that conatins a list of all XML channels and what they should be mapped to for Media Portal
Second I have sets of listings so I get the identifiers from the TvGuide.xml and use them to locate were to make replacements. Third I check that all channels have a mapping, if not I warn. Fourth since I have more than 1 channel whose ID remained the same between listings I rename it in 1 of the 2 listings bwfore merging. Forth I make the required replacements in the merged file. Fith I copy over the TvGuide.xml file manually.

So it does work, but as I said it is not easy, though hopefully this file will help somebody else figure out how to do it, got question post here,
ERIC

 

[jackfrost]

wow. i'm pretty surprised that MP or XMLTV or something doesn't have support for this. doesn't anyone else get different channels from different tuners?

i have an HVR-1600 and the channels are different over analog than ATSC.

 

[Khidr]

seriously. I'm in exactly this boat, I got the 1600 so I could series record hd network shows over qam... being able to map these channels to their corresponding networks in the guide would be faboo. As far as I can tell schedules direct / xmltv doesn't have an EPG for my clear qam channels, so I need to bind them to their epg channels manually.