home
products
contribute
download
documentation
forum
Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
All posts
Latest activity
Members
Registered members
Current visitors
Donate
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
MediaPortal 1
Support
Electronic Program Guide
Tempest EPG Generator
Contact us
RSS
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PN23" data-source="post: 1288342" data-attributes="member: 164523"><p>Hi kvanc,</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for the help. I was already using fusion level 0 after reading about the other day - that will come in handy.</p><p></p><p>My current method of creating/updating my tv guide is a little long-winded but the only way really that I've been able to do it.</p><p></p><p>I use digiguide listings for the UK as these have so far proved to be the best for me, and Schedules Direct for listings from further afield.</p><p></p><p>Putting it all together involves a shell script which runs every few days, extracts the digiguide listings, scrapes from all 4 of my Schedules Direct lineups, extracts and changes listings for a few channels that I cannot find a +1 listing for, changes the encoding of some of the XML files to UTF-8 where required, change timezones where appropriate and account for UTC/BST/DST, concatenate the resulting XML files in to one tvguide XML file, then move it to the correct location. I grab 7 days at a time (would prefer 14 to be honest like we used to have with WMC) and the entire process can take around 45 minutes on pretty fast machine.</p><p></p><p>Once MP2 sees this, it can take around another 50 minutes to an hour for it to sort itself out and obviously during that time the MP2 configuration program is unusable.</p><p></p><p>If I can get all of the UK listings I need from the Sky scraper in Fusion, I can drop digiguide altogether as getting the listings out of the damn thing is a pain (The only way I have found is to use their desktop software which regularly downloads the listings but these are obfuscated and only available to this desktop app, and who wants a separate desktop app to look at listings? I then use the command line version of XMLTV GUI from Alan Birtles which is able to extract the digiguide listings from the app and produce an XML).</p><p></p><p>I will have a look at the Schedules Direct API documentation as soon as I am able and see if I can get that working with Fusion. With any luck, I will just be able to use Fusion to do the heavy lifting for me and produce my listings.</p><p></p><p>I do have a question regarding the output format of the XML.</p><p></p><p>The generated XML file format is channel, programme, programme, programme etc as opposed to channel*, programme* so I cannot validate the files against the standard xmltv.dtd.</p><p></p><p>Is there an option I have missed that can output the files in this way?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PN23, post: 1288342, member: 164523"] Hi kvanc, Thanks again for the help. I was already using fusion level 0 after reading about the other day - that will come in handy. My current method of creating/updating my tv guide is a little long-winded but the only way really that I've been able to do it. I use digiguide listings for the UK as these have so far proved to be the best for me, and Schedules Direct for listings from further afield. Putting it all together involves a shell script which runs every few days, extracts the digiguide listings, scrapes from all 4 of my Schedules Direct lineups, extracts and changes listings for a few channels that I cannot find a +1 listing for, changes the encoding of some of the XML files to UTF-8 where required, change timezones where appropriate and account for UTC/BST/DST, concatenate the resulting XML files in to one tvguide XML file, then move it to the correct location. I grab 7 days at a time (would prefer 14 to be honest like we used to have with WMC) and the entire process can take around 45 minutes on pretty fast machine. Once MP2 sees this, it can take around another 50 minutes to an hour for it to sort itself out and obviously during that time the MP2 configuration program is unusable. If I can get all of the UK listings I need from the Sky scraper in Fusion, I can drop digiguide altogether as getting the listings out of the damn thing is a pain (The only way I have found is to use their desktop software which regularly downloads the listings but these are obfuscated and only available to this desktop app, and who wants a separate desktop app to look at listings? I then use the command line version of XMLTV GUI from Alan Birtles which is able to extract the digiguide listings from the app and produce an XML). I will have a look at the Schedules Direct API documentation as soon as I am able and see if I can get that working with Fusion. With any luck, I will just be able to use Fusion to do the heavy lifting for me and produce my listings. I do have a question regarding the output format of the XML. The generated XML file format is channel, programme, programme, programme etc as opposed to channel*, programme* so I cannot validate the files against the standard xmltv.dtd. Is there an option I have missed that can output the files in this way? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
MediaPortal 1
Support
Electronic Program Guide
Tempest EPG Generator
Contact us
RSS
Top
Bottom