[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[David Moore]

On 1/05/2012, at 8:36 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, April 30, 2012 3:45 pm, David Moore wrote:
>>> On 30/04/12 11:52, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> So who here is using this for the DTT channels?
>>>> 
>>>> I've had a play with mhegepgsnooppy and what I really need is a way to
>>>> provide a mapping file rather than have it probe the MythTV database.
>>>> The
>>>> box i'd usually be running this on has a tuner card, but isn't running
>>>> MythTV.
>>>> 
>>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>> Just uploaded version 0.3.3 with option to specify a channel map file.
>>> File format is two fields per row, tab separated, with MHEG channel name
>>> first and xmltv channel ID second. Only briefly tested so quite likely
>>> buggy.
>>> 
>> 
>> Nice work. Provisional testing worked for me.
>> 
>> I generated the mapping file off a channel scan as follows
>> 
>> cat ../dtt/dtt.conf  | cut -f 1,13 -d ":" \
>> | sed "s/:/ /g" | sed "s/$/.dvb.guide/g" > mheg.list
>> 
>> Then once the card was tuned I could run the EPG grabber and get all the
>> freeview|HD channels.
> 
> I guess mhegepgsnoopy does not work for a hdhomerun?
> 
> (there is no dvb device to specify)
> 
You need to specify a file descriptor that behaves like a DVB demux. Don't know if that's possible over a network with an hdhomerun.