[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[David Moore]

On 10/05/12 09:07, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 7:42 pm, David Moore wrote:
>> On 09/05/12 18:13, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, April 30, 2012 4:59 pm, Steven Ellis 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.
>>>
>>> OK I still have a minor issue. The generated data doesn't include a GMT
>>> offset for the times and is confusing the data load.
>>>
>>> For example
>>>
>>>           <programme channel="1407.dvb.guide" start="20120512203000"
>>> stop="20120512213000">
>>>                   <title>32 Brinkburn Street</title>
>>>                   <desc>32 Brinkburn Street has been home to the Ogilvie
>>> family for generations. Loved by most of its occupants,
>>> the house will always be a home at the heart of the
>>> family.</desc>
>>>                   <episode-num system="dd_progid">TWBS01_01</episode-num>
>>>                   <rating system="Freeview">
>>>                           <value>PGR</value>
>>>                   </rating>
>>>           </programme>
>>>
>>> VS
>>>
>>> <programme channel="1035.dvb.guide" start="20120511163000 +1200"
>>> stop="20120511165500 +1200">
>>>           <title lang="eng">ONE News at 4.30</title>
>>>           <desc></desc>
>>>           <category>tvshow</category>
>>>           <category>News/Current Affairs</category>
>>>           <!-- Cat:2-0 -->
>>>           <!-- Unknown rating:0 -->
>>> </programme>
>>>
>>> Ideally this could be based on the timezone of the host, or could be
>>> another command line option.
>>>
>>> Sadly the freeview MHEG data isn't based off UMT.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> UMT? Never heard of it until you mentioned it. Gives me the shudders
>> after a quick read on the web. Can't really see why we need it.
>>
>> Anyway I guess it wouldn't be too hard to include an option to produce
>> GMT/UTC times with offsets for NZ timezone.
>>
>> So instead of
>> 20120512203000
>> you would get
>> 20120512083000 + 1200.
>>
>> Is that what you need? Actually I suppose the best thing would be
>> options for local time, plain UTC and UTC with offset to specified
>> timezone. Make sense?
>
>
> Hi David. In your MythTV setup for the freeview source what time zone do
> you set for the EPG. In my case I default to using AUTO as I import
> multiple EPG feeds for different timezones, for example SBS (now sadly off
> air).
>
> When I generate listings with epgsnoop the data contains the +1200 offset
> based on my local system vs the DVB data.
>
> In the case of DTT I merge DVB and MHEG data so that my DTT and DTH
> channels are being provided with identical EPG information. For the DTT
> exclusive channels I just pull them from the MHEG file using tv_split and
> tv_cat.
>
> Steve
>
Hi Steve. My setting is "none" for the EPG timezone. I only have DVB-T 
so it works fine with the MHEG EPG local times. I'll probably do a quick 
fix just for you :) that gives you the option to generate UTC +1200 (or 
+1300 for DST). Then I'll think about a more general solution. /David