[mythtvnz] Manipulating Program Guide Information

[Steve Hodge]

On 2/21/06, Steven Ellis <mail_lists@stevencherie.net> wrote:
>
> I have been using the tv_grab_nz_ontv script to get program information,
> but it is missing Juice TV and C4. I was looking at switching to the
> hairy.geek.nz information but i'd like to prune the feed to just the
> channels i'm after. This would be just the terrestial channels in Aucklan=
d.
>
> Anyone else tried to do this and can provide any tips?

Just set the channels to be invisible (in mythtv-setup uncheck the
"visible" option on the channel's page). Alternatively, don't define
the channels you don't want and run mythfilldatabase with --update so
it won't create them. You'll get a lot of warnings from
mythfilldatabase but it should work. Finally you could look for
something that can parse xml and strip out the unwanted programs.

In my setup I have a TV tuner that gets the FTA channels, a video
capture card that takes the output of a Sky digital decoder, and a
DVB-S card that gets the free channels TVNZ broadcast via satellite. I
use a combination of the first two options I mentioned above:
The TV tuner only has the channels they receive defined, but I load
the full EPG file against it with --update.
The Sky input and the DVB-S card have various channels marked as not
visible. I load the same file against both of those as well.

Steve