Sky UK/IT/AUS enhancements (2 Viewers)

[icam2]

IanJ

Hi I Also had the same problem as yourself. It turned out not to be media portal or the plugins. It was a problem with MySQL just go into your mysql folder and delete mptvdb folder then restart the tvservice. all the settings will be reset to default and the sky plugin will work fine. If the problems return check the permisson in mysql.

Good luck.

 

[IanJ]

@IanJ

Hi I Also had the same problem as yourself. It turned out not to be media portal or the plugins. It was a problem with MySQL just go into your mysql folder and delete mptvdb folder then restart the tvservice. all the settings will be reset to default and the sky plugin will work fine. If the problems return check the permisson in mysql.

Good luck.

This would explain why with previous versions of the tv scanner I had completely removed MP and re-installed to no avail.

Thanks for that.....will try it tonight.

Ian.

 

[DJBlu]

Todo:

Series Link
Auto Update interval. Every day at 3am etc

how does the update interval work in the current build? I assume it still grabs at least daily like in the current build where a refresh interval is set, just with no specific method to force a specific time?

Also, where you say series link to come, how does this differ from the 1.1.x version? Series recording worked ok for me in 1.1.2 and I am just trying to decide if its better to hold fire until this is in, or if its good to go..

Thanks!

bob808

The series link will work exactly the same it just isn't implemented yet. I wanted to release a file as I had been saying for ages that something is coming.

The Update interval will be exactly like the EPG grabber.
At 3.00pm on Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
I was thinking of adding the option to update every X hours but would need to implement it into the powerscheduler.
The plugin currently defaults to every 3 hours after a successful update
If an error occurs it will try again every 5 mins until successful

I am open to ideas if you have any.

I will release the source code in a few days when it is stable enough for release, I have a new idea for the Custom Data Grabber that will stop the filesize of the temporary file increasing to a silly size. I really need your feedback as I only have 1 TV Server with 1 set of variables. The more information I receive the better as I can really make this a great plugin.

With everything now taken out of the TSWriter and TVLibrary the options are endless.
With this new method if I am able to introduce MHEG5 features then I would hope the team uses this idea in future releases.

I have worked on this solid now for 2 weeks as I think it is a great way of improving MediaPortal and the end user experience. How much more easier is it that you don't have to search for new channels in the Setup?

I also forgot to mention that the Scanner will do the following:

Update new channels.
Delete non existent Channels.
Track Channel Movements.
Track Channel Number Changes.
Group Channels into OpenTV channel groups.
Place HD equivelent channels in place of SD channels.

 

[Wo0zy]

Sounds fantastic DJBlu!!

Hopefully I'll get it installed tonight and will feedback.

Quick question. I have a mixed DVB-S/DVB-T server. If I use the OTA grabber for the DVB-T channels and this mod for the DVB-S channels and I then combine the channels that are available on both tuners, which EPG will prevail for these "mixed" channels when viewing the "All Channels" group?

Thanks for all your hard work. This really will take MP TVServer to the next level!.

All the best,

Wo0zy.

 

[icam2]

@IanJ

Hi I Also had the same problem as yourself. It turned out not to be media portal or the plugins. It was a problem with MySQL just go into your mysql folder and delete mptvdb folder then restart the tvservice. all the settings will be reset to default and the sky plugin will work fine. If the problems return check the permisson in mysql.

Good luck.

This would explain why with previous versions of the tv scanner I had completely removed MP and re-installed to no avail.

Thanks for that.....will try it tonight.

Ian.

Folder location on my pc (winxp) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.4\data\mptvdb

 

[DJBlu]

Sounds fantastic DJBlu!!

Hopefully I'll get it installed tonight and will feedback.

Quick question. I have a mixed DVB-S/DVB-T server. If I use the OTA grabber for the DVB-T channels and this mod for the DVB-S channels and I then combine the channels that are available on both tuners, which EPG will prevail for these "mixed" channels when viewing the "All Channels" group?

Thanks for all your hard work. This really will take MP TVServer to the next level!.

All the best,

Wo0zy.

I will be messing about with dvb-t channels later I have got hold of a cheap dvbt card. The way the epg is updated is the scanner modifies the externalid field of the channel. The epg scanner looks up this field and adds epg to that channel.

Are you wanting Epg from dvbs to replace the dvbt or the other way around?

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I think what you've done is fantastic and I cant wait to try it.

Unfortunately I will need the Series Link functionality before I can test in anger (my actual test rig is out of action, so I'm using the main HTPC)

J.

 

[bob808]

The series link will work exactly the same it just isn't implemented yet. I wanted to release a file as I had been saying for ages that something is coming.

The Update interval will be exactly like the EPG grabber.
At 3.00pm on Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
I was thinking of adding the option to update every X hours but would need to implement it into the powerscheduler.
The plugin currently defaults to every 3 hours after a successful update
If an error occurs it will try again every 5 mins until successful

I am open to ideas if you have any.

I will release the source code in a few days when it is stable enough for release, I have a new idea for the Custom Data Grabber that will stop the filesize of the temporary file increasing to a silly size. I really need your feedback as I only have 1 TV Server with 1 set of variables. The more information I receive the better as I can really make this a great plugin.

With everything now taken out of the TSWriter and TVLibrary the options are endless.
With this new method if I am able to introduce MHEG5 features then I would hope the team uses this idea in future releases.

I have worked on this solid now for 2 weeks as I think it is a great way of improving MediaPortal and the end user experience. How much more easier is it that you don't have to search for new channels in the Setup?

I also forgot to mention that the Scanner will do the following:

Update new channels.
Delete non existent Channels.
Track Channel Movements.
Track Channel Number Changes.
Group Channels into OpenTV channel groups.
Place HD equivelent channels in place of SD channels.

More than happy with that as a way of refreshing the EPG/channels... and you are absolutely right, the self maintaining nature of this to no longer need a rescan is fantastic and is the reason I held off installing anything other than my stable 1.1.2 until now.

Really appreciate all your work here to bring this to release, and look forward to the enhancement with series link!

Quick question though - if I delete a group like Adult, or Shopping, will this just be added back in... is there any way to tell it to exclude any channels/groups (I normally have all channels hidden anyway, and just navigate through my groups).

Thanks again

bob808

 

[bubsy83]

I updated to 1.2b, and imported my 233 favourite sky channels, whenever I grab the epg it adds all the other 700+ channels from the sky epg so I end up with 900+, how do I prevent it from doing this?

 

[DJBlu]

bob808 I will add this although I think I wrote it so if you leave the group number in the list but delete the name then it won't add the group

@bubsy de-select AutoUpdate channels and Channel numbers