[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[David Moore]

On 11/05/12 14:03, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, David Moore<dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz>  wrote:
>>> On 11/05/12 12:21, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Steven Ellis<steven at openmedia.co.nz>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 6:26 pm, David Moore wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/05/12 17:18, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 3:14 pm, David Moore wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 10/05/12 09:07, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dave. That would be brilliant. Cheers
>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Steven Ellis - Technical Director
>>>>>>> OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR
>>>>>>> email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
>>>>>>> website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Version 0.3.4 just uploaded. Turned out to be not so simple because (a)
>>>>>> I decided to try and do it right rather than quick and dirty and (b)
>>>>>> surprisingly Python doesn't do time zones very well. Anyway I think it
>>>>>> works. Just add "-z" command line arg. Enjoy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice try but times are off by a couple of hours.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 12 hours isn't it? (one says 0600 hours or 6am, t'other says 1800 or 6pm)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For example take from DVB-S i get
>>>>>
>>>>> <programme channel="1035.dvb.guide" start="20120512180000 +1200"
>>>>> stop="20120512190000 +1200">
>>>>>         <title lang="eng">ONE News At 6pm</title>
>>>>>         <desc>The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the
>>>>> latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather
>>>>> report.</desc>
>>>>>         <category>tvshow</category>
>>>>>         <category>News/Current Affairs</category>
>>>>>         <!-- Cat:2-0 -->
>>>>>         <!-- Unknown rating:0 -->
>>>>> </programme>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   From MHEG I get
>>>>>
>>>>>         <programme channel="1200.dvb.guide" start="20120511060000 +1200"
>>>>> stop="20120511070000 +1200">
>>>>>                 <title>ONE News At 6pm</title>
>>>>>                 <desc>The nation's leading team of journalists brings
>>>>> viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most
>>>>> comprehensive weather report.</desc>
>>>>>                 <episode-num system="dd_progid">10272257</episode-num>
>>>>>                 <subtitles type="teletext" />
>>>>>         </programme>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Well it looks like the DVB-S date/time is wrong to me. The UTC time for news
>>> at 6 pm should be 2012mmdd060000 because we're 12 hours ahead of UTC.
>>
>> No no no, the timezone is +1200 and the date/time is specified in the
>> that timezone, in other words 1800 hours NZ time (which is 1200 ahead
>> of UTC).
>
>
> For example here is the output of date -R on my pffice server just a
> minute or so ago:
>
> nick at server:~$ date -R
> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:02:37 +1200
>

Yes, yes, yes. :) I really will RTFM next time, I promise. Should be 
sorted now.