[mythtvnz] epgsnoop confusing Prime and TVNZ 7

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Sun Aug 3 05:13:54 BST 2008


> The title says it all!!
>
> My Prime listing for the last few days have contained TVNZ7 listings
> instead!
>
> Has Prime moved on Sky or does Sky now transmit TVNZ7 and hence have EPG
> data for it?
>
> I'm using xmltvid values of prime.sky.co.nz and tvnz7.freeviewnz.tv so it
> must be getting data wrong at the grab stage. This is the sort of thing I
> end up with my listings-sky.xml file
>
>   <programme start="20080802180000 +1200" stop="20080802181000 +1200"
> channel="prime.sky.co.nz">
>     <title lang="eng">TVNZ News Now</title>
>     <desc>TVNZ News Now: A ten-minute news bulletin to give New Zealanders
> a summary of the news they need to know hour by hour.</desc>
>     <category>tvshow</category>
>   </programme>
>
>
> Very confused as I can't find an up-to-date channels.conf file for either
> freeview or Sky :-(
>

Sorted!!

Turns out that by coincidence I've been recording something from Freeview
3 nights running at 1:00am when the epgsnoop script wants to tune to the
Sky multiplex to get the Prime epg.

As it happens, Prime is on pid 1038 on the Sky mux and TVNZ7 is the same
pid on the Freeview mux so having failed to tune, epgsnoop grabbed the
wrong data!! Guess I'll have to improve the script that runs
dvbtune/epgsnoop to avoid this since it of course overrides existing Prime
data.


-- 
Robin Gilks





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