XMLTV grabber for Belgium (3 Viewers)

[Madhatter]

Thanx a lot for al your efforts guys., I've finaly managed to get the belgian TV guide up & running.

I've been lurking in here for the past week or so after setting up my first HTPC (WinTV GO card in use, 150 PVR ordered). Configuring Media Portal for the first time, involves a wee learning curve, especialy for "noobs"... I believe in (not nesseceraly in that order) search, google and endurance (en een pak gekloot, hehe),and you've made it worth my while.

 

[Poussun]

What are the channels bundled with this Belgian grabber ?

 

[Anonymous]

It seems that the grabber is getting things a little "scrambled": wrong times, wrong descriptions, ...
Would this be caused by the source or did I do something wrong???

 

[Madhatter]

Have you tried updating your tvguide +1 hour?
You can do that in the MP config. Worked for me....

 

[Anonymous]

I did, but it still seems to get the info subtly wrong. I'm beginning to think that TVBLAD.BE gives wrong info, as it's not wrong in the same way for each and every channel :?

EDIT:
Just saw that you have to "remove" previous listings. Maybe that's the problem: overlap and changed programmation??

 

[Madhatter]

Hey Bakker,

I thought the same thing when i first used the python-grabber for Belgium.

try it wit this Batch file :

@echo off

:start
del tvguidenew.xml 2> NUL
del tvguideold.xml 2> NUL

c:\Python24\Python c:\Python24\Scripts\tv_grab_be_tvb --output=tvguidenew.xml --days=8 --toffset=+60
if errorlevel 10 goto start

ren tvguide.xml tvguideold.xml 2> NUL
ren tvguidenew.xml tvguide.xml 2> NUL

..\TVGuideScheduler.exe /file tvguide.xml

Notice the time offset, by doing this and leaving the offset zero in the Mediaportal config, the timing should be right.
Hope this helps, only thing is, due to a naming issue with "VRT-TV1" & "één" i never receive the program for it. I don't know how to solve it....

 

[Blizz]

Indeed, if a program shedule / time / whatever changes, but the time for that moment is already present in the MP TV database, it's seems to ignore it. You have to clear it first and refetch the data, at least that is the impression i'm getting.

 

[Zby]

How to get "Description" and "Content" i

I am running the tv_grab_be python script to get the XMLTV tvguide. Out of the box, this script takes "Info" to put it in the "desc" field of the tvguide.xml, it give the generic information. Nothing is done with the Content information ("Inhoud"or"Contenu"), but it is there that the full description resides!

So, which argument may I use to get both visible in my TV guide :?:

Thx in advance, Zby-)

 

[Olive]

JXMLTV: a Java XMLTV grabber for Belgium

Hi,

For those of you that are frustrated by pytvgrab-be_tlm, I have created a new XMLTV grabber for Belgium that improves on the existing pytvgrab-be_tlm (e.g. it can grab extra fields such as actors, summary, category, sub-categories).

Have a look at http://users.skynet.be/jxmltv/.

Olive

 

[patpotlood]

great stuff you did there Olive

hope you do the flemish grabber soon.

P