[mythtvnz] Radio listings WAS Default channel?

Steven Ellis mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:04:51 +1200


Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, June 28, 2007 11:26 pm, Robin Gilks wrote:
>   
>>>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hmmm just realised I may be able to get Maori TV on 12608 too :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes I can, cool, they have some good foreign movies.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Guess I'll have to try mine with other than just getting the EPG :>
>>>
>>> If only there was something worth watching on TV2. I think I once
>>> watched
>>> half a film in 4 years before the adverts made my brain melt - perhaps
>>> thats why I have MythTV in my life!!
>>>
>>>       
>> Well I've got it all working - sort of. Like Nick I'm sharing a dish with
>> a Sky box so I'm only using vertical transports at the moment.
>>
>> What I really want to do with the EPG is get the on-air data (EIT) for the
>> radio channels but continue to use the EPG for 1, 2 & Maori from the Sky
>> epgsnoop input. This will ensure that the Sky and FTA versions of TV 1 and
>> 2 have the same data so the scheduler works correctly.
>>
>> I've found that if I elect to use the EIT as the grabber for the source,
>> the xmltv field in the channel setup is greyed out. If I set no grabber
>> for the source then setting 'Use on-air data' doesn't seem to do anything.
>>
>> Am I missing something here or can I not split where the EPG data comes
>> from  on a single source input - either EIT or XMLTV but not a selection
>> of either on a per channel basis.
>>
>> BTW: I'm running SVN r13756M & a SkyStar 2 card.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Robin Gilks
>>     
>
> Interesting point. I have just started looking into being able to schedule
> recordings of Radio NZ National as i find the podcast feeds very poor
> quality. However on grepping my listings.xml (from
> http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/listings.xml.gz) I find National Radio is
> 1101.dvb.guide and there are only two entries for that ID - Morning Report
> and Nine to Noon, both on 28 June.
>
>
>   
Sky's data for the radio stations is just Now/Next

The freeview EIT feed has full data for 7-8 days

Steve

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