Sky IT / UK / UK Freesat EPG (1 Viewer)

[DJBlu]

When i was looking through the logs trying to spot what was happening before a crash i keep getting. DJ blu's old plug in managed to grab the data within 1-2 minutes then wait for the time out before putting it in the DB. Does this new one manage to end the EPG grab and start dumping to the DB after the grab is complete or wait for the time out.

the MHW seems to be able to end enf grabbing and dump to the DB before the time out

Some of the DVB EPG's I use else where need longer than a minute to fully grab the data.

It does,

I strongly recommend people use this patch as it is very impressive.

@Miroslav22 I will modify the huffman loading technique and show you what I mean. The tables are then out of the code and are on file so if they change you don't need to modify the code.

 

[Ragnarok666]

I strongly recommend people use this patch as it is very impressive.

Ditto, I took to my old MPTVDB from RC1 with existing channels and Zero crashing after a full EPG scan for Sky UK, Canal Digital NL and Scandinavia, HD+ and few FTA channels on Astra 1 and far fewer problems in general with MP 1.10 final.

I'll give sky Italia a try later or tomorrow and report back.

 

[Ragnarok666]

Sky Italia EPG appears to work

26-07-2010 16:37:51.328 epg: set callback
26-07-2010 16:37:51.359 EpgScanner::GrabEPG
26-07-2010 16:37:51.406 epg:GrabEPG
26-07-2010 16:37:51.453 epg:ResetEPG()
26-07-2010 16:37:51.500 epg:GrabEPG()
26-07-2010 16:37:51.546 EpgScanner::GrabMHW
26-07-2010 16:37:51.593 mhw grab
26-07-2010 16:37:51.625 mhw reset
26-07-2010 16:37:51.656 mhw grabber started decoders:2
26-07-2010 16:37:51.703 CSkyManager::ActivateEpgGrabber() - Activated Sky EPG grabber for country: Italy
26-07-2010 16:37:54.953 CSkyManager - Title decoding complete, found 51206
26-07-2010 16:37:57.531 CSkyManager - Summary decoding complete, found 49689
26-07-2010 16:38:09.671 CSkyManager - Channel & bouquet scan complete.  Found a total of 593 channels in 5 bouquets
26-07-2010 16:38:09.718 epg: epg received
26-07-2010 16:38:09.765 epg: do callback
26-07-2010 16:38:09.828 CEpgScanner::IsSkyEpgGrabberActive()
26-07-2010 16:38:09.875 CEpgScanner::IsSkyEpgReady()
26-07-2010 16:38:09.921 CEpgScanner::ResetEpgRetrieval()
26-07-2010 16:38:10.859 epg: reset
26-07-2010 16:38:10.906 epg:ResetEPG()
26-07-2010 16:38:10.937 mhw reset
26-07-2010 16:38:11.62 CSkyManager::Reset() - Reset successful
26-07-2010 16:38:11.203 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 60715 ).
26-07-2010 16:43:43.984 epg: reset
26-07-2010 16:43:45.453 epg:ResetEPG()
26-07-2010 16:43:45.484 mhw reset
26-07-2010 16:43:45.531 CSkyManager::Reset() - Reset successful

 

[g.sigalotti]

Hi all,

I have created installers based on 1.1.0 final if anyone is interested in adding series link to MP.


The benefits of Series Link are:

Repeated airings on the same channel are not recorded (as they will have a different series id)
If the title of an episode differs during a series, the episode will still be picked up and recorded.

"Record every time on this channel" records all repeated airings and because it is based on the title, cannnot detect episode where the title changes.



The installers add the following to 1.1.0 final:

Full Sky UK EPG grabbing (this is re-coded and not based on djblu's tswriter)
Series Link capability in the scheduler (records each episode in a series)
Automatically deletes the Series Link schedule after the last episode has been recorded
Quick record menu (See screenshots)


To install:

Simply install MP 1.1.0 final
Then run both installers (one for tvservice and one for mediaportal)

To enable EPG grabbing for Sky in this version, just select the radio channel "EPG background audio". The timeout can be set as low as 1 minute as it only takes about 17 seconds to grab the entire epg carousel (plus a couple of minutes for MP to insert all ~115,000 program entries into the database)


Please note that these installers add new fields into the database so if you want to use them, i'd recommend exporting your current database (in tvsetup). This *may* cause problems if you want to upgrade to future versions. Also note that its likely there will be bugs intially but I will do my best to fix problems as they crop up. Im hoping that Sky Italia will work, but it is impossible for me to test it. The Huffman trees for both UK and Italy are compiled into tswriter.


Ive attached an svn patch file. You only need this if your interested in the source code, or want to compile this new functionality into other versions of MP.






Links to the 2 installers (their too big to attach)

Download Setup-MediaPortal-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
Download Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

Hi there, i'm Italian and i have tryied your great patch to grap Sky IT epg guide. I'm impressed, it's really fast, but i have a problem with EPG timetable. All programs have a shift of 1 hour. id if a program begins at 21 i see it in EPG at 20. I guess a problem with UTC time (Italy is +1).
I have alsso another question. I have configured EPG to grab data on Alice (as i did with the DJBlu previous patch) and all seems to work except for 1 hour shift but you worte

just select the radio channel EPG background audio

. and i cannot find this channel... am i doing something wrong?
Thanks
Gianni

 

[Ragnarok666]

It's better to use Nuvolari it's FTA Alice is on the same transponder but Encrypted. There isn't a radio channel on the transponder which carries the Sky Italia EPG this grabber works with.

I do believe there also an MHW EPG broadcast on same transponder as Sky Calcio Info. but I've had limited success with MHW EPG grabbing even though it's apparently part of and working in Media Portal.

 

[jobyrne30]

Hi all,

I have created installers based on 1.1.0 final if anyone is interested in adding series link to MP.

I installed it yesterday and I've been impressed with it , It's an excellent bit of work. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I'm really like the new MEPO, combined with the Sky series link it's gotta be considered the best HTPC application for TV. I'll be using and testing the new setup on my secondary HTPC for a few weeks before updating my main HTPC.

Once again thanks to DJBlu and Miroslav22 for their efforts on their different version of the SKY epg grabber.

 

[miroslav22]

Hi all,

many thanks everyone for your comments and for testing, its much appreciated

Hi there, i'm Italian and i have tryied your great patch to grap Sky IT epg guide. I'm impressed, it's really fast, but i have a problem with EPG timetable. All programs have a shift of 1 hour. id if a program begins at 21 i see it in EPG at 20. I guess a problem with UTC time (Italy is +1).
I have alsso another question. I have configured EPG to grab data on Alice (as i did with the DJBlu previous patch) and all seems to work except for 1 hour shift but you worte

just select the radio channel EPG background audio

. and i cannot find this channel... am i doing something wrong?
Thanks
Gianni

Sorry about the time problem, I will try and upload a fix for this in the next couple of days. I think the code assumes the EPG program times are local rather than UTC.

The 'EPG background audio' channel just applies to the UK - sorry I should have mentioned this. For Italy the channel "Alice" will activate the EPG grabber (or any other channel on the default transponder 11881/V/27500)

Regarding Gibman's tuner patch, unfortunately TVLibrary.dll and TVLibrary.Interfaces.dll are the 2 main files changed by this EPG/scheduler code. I can merge his patch into my working copy at home and upload a new tvservice installer if this would be easiest for everyone who wanted to use it?

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Just to reinterate other peoples comments - this seems to work great for me!

If you could merge your code with Gibmans that would be fantastic - Gibman's code makes a big difference for me running the Nova S2 cards.

J.

 

[miroslav22]

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Hi,

Ive integrated Gibman's tuner fix into the code (noticably reduces zapping times)

This version should also fix the incorrect time on programs for Sky Italia (if someone could verify this for me that'd be great)

Simply install over the previous version (note - it can be installed over a fresh MP 1.1.0 but you also need the main MediaPortal installer from a few pages back, otherwise you will get a version mismatch error)

Download Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

 

[g.sigalotti]

Hi,

Ive integrated Gibman's tuner fix into the code (noticably reduces zapping times)

This version should also fix the incorrect time on programs for Sky Italia (if someone could verify this for me that'd be great)

Simply install over the previous version (note - it can be installed over a fresh MP 1.1.0 but you also need the main MediaPortal installer from a few pages back, otherwise you will get a version mismatch error)

Download Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

Thank you very much for your fast answer! I'll try the patch as soon as possible and i'll give u feedback.