[mythtvnz] nice EPG

[Steven Ellis]

Craig Whitmore wrote:
>
>> I've had some queries from potential customers as they have assumed the
>> DVB EPG data is updated on a per-second basis, and includes signals to
>> indicate the exact start/end time of programs.
>>
>
> Maybe I shouldn't ask.. but does anyone written a program to get the
> non encrypted EIT data accessed via the SKY transcievers to convert to
> the corresponding FTA analog stuff  on mythtv ? (So you can get the
> EIT data for channel 1,2,3 from Sky Transceivers etc and use this when
> viewing channel1,2,3 on analog TV (Instead of having to run xmltvnz or
> whatever to scrape the websites for the same data)
Yup. Guess what we use on myPVR :)

One issue is around device locking. I need to know when the DVB device
is available to scan both freeview + Sky so we get all of the EIT data.
I've noticed that sometimes the backend can crash if it tries to start a
recording whilst the device is locked running epgsnoop. Should hopefully
get the kinks out of that this weekend.

At the moment we have official access to EPG data for most of the
regional channels, and then the rest can come out of the EIT data.

Steve

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