Sky IT / UK / UK Freesat EPG (2 Viewers)

[ma9mwah]

DJBlu, which files are you editting in the code to change the TSWriter file? as i've looked in the source and cannot find it. I'm hoping to edited it to allow series/episode ids to be downloaded via DVB-t.

 

[DJBlu]

DJBlu, which files are you editting in the code to change the TSWriter file? as i've looked in the source and cannot find it. I'm hoping to edited it to allow series/episode ids to be downloaded via DVB-t.

You won't find it because it isn't in there.

There is no Series Information in the EPG source files.

 

[ma9mwah]

this is the info that dvbguide can pull down from the onair EPG.

<programme channel="X1088" start="20081221190000 +0000" stop="20081221200000 +0000">
    <!--event id="46973" -->
    <!--crid type="0x31" uri="crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/1RE8PG" -->
    <!--crid type="0x32" uri="crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/KCIEX8" -->
    <title lang="en">Top Gear</title>
    <desc lang="en">Motoring news and views, with examinations of the Honda Clarity and the Tesla,
    a battery-powered super-car, and an affectionate look back at 50 years of Touring Car racing. [S]</desc>

0x31 and 0x32 entries are the episode and series ids. i cannot see why media portal couldn't extract the same information.

 

[DJBlu]

this is the info that dvbguide can pull down from the onair EPG.

<programme channel="X1088" start="20081221190000 +0000" stop="20081221200000 +0000">
    <!--event id="46973" -->
    <!--crid type="0x31" uri="crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/1RE8PG" -->
    <!--crid type="0x32" uri="crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/KCIEX8" -->
    <title lang="en">Top Gear</title>
    <desc lang="en">Motoring news and views, with examinations of the Honda Clarity and the Tesla,
    a battery-powered super-car, and an affectionate look back at 50 years of Touring Car racing. [S]</desc>

0x31 and 0x32 entries are the episode and series ids. i cannot see why media portal couldn't extract the same information.

I think you should read this page m8,

Crid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That explains what crids are. There is no way in getting sequencial information from them. So you can't work out if it is 4th or 5th in the series.

Thinking about it you can use is to see if the episode has been recorded however mediaportal would not know which episode it is nor would you know how many episodes are in the series.

 

[ma9mwah]

I was hoping MP would act like a Freeview+ recorder, as if I clicked Record on the above programme it would look at the programmes table in the DB where the seriesid equalled KCIEX8, and then would record any episode if the episode id was >= 1RE8PG (with no dups) like the standalone boxes do.

 

[jo16v]

I don't have a radio channel called EPG audio background, but I can live without radio EPG. TV much more important.

You should have it- it doesn't just get radio epg it also gets all the Sky, frree to view and free to air channels not on Freesat.

 

[robyf]

Hi DJBlu,
could you please recompile the patch for MP 1.0?

Thanks

 

[DJBlu]

Already working on it. Wasn't expecting this to be released so soon!

edit: the last TSWriter I compiled will work as nothing has been changed from RC4 to 1.0

 

[gloomyandy]

Hi,
First off I love this mod... It has been working really well for me... Until last night when I noticed I had no EPG data. After a little messing around I was able to force a manual update and now all is well again... However I'm not sure what caused the problem in the first place... Has anyone else seen this happen?

I wonder if it could have been caused by the long refresh time I had set. Based on an earlier posting I had my retry timeout set to 24 hours (well 1440 minutes). Now I'm not 100% how this timeout actually works, but could I have ended up in a situation were my system was in use every time it tried to do a grab and it then waited 24 hours and found the same state?

I've changed the timeout to be 2hours for now so I'll wait and see what happens!

All the best

Andy

 

[DJBlu]

Hi,
First off I love this mod... It has been working really well for me... Until last night when I noticed I had no EPG data. After a little messing around I was able to force a manual update and now all is well again... However I'm not sure what caused the problem in the first place... Has anyone else seen this happen?

I wonder if it could have been caused by the long refresh time I had set. Based on an earlier posting I had my retry timeout set to 24 hours (well 1440 minutes). Now I'm not 100% how this timeout actually works, but could I have ended up in a situation were my system was in use every time it tried to do a grab and it then waited 24 hours and found the same state?

I've changed the timeout to be 2hours for now so I'll wait and see what happens!

All the best

Andy

I found this too. I have mine set to 6 hours. The EPG update for the channels after the major one doesn't take more than 5 - 10 mins.