[mythtvnz] epgsnoop and listings update

Steven Ellis steven at openmedia.co.nz
Wed Sep 26 08:26:37 BST 2007


Wade Maxfield wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Forgive me if I ask a stupid question, but I have not been able to
>> find an answer yet.
>>
>> I'm still "only" in the Terestial TV stage, so I am a happy user of
>> the EPG you guys provide in XML. I was going to create some script
>> which filters out the channels that I can actually receive. This way
>> the database is just nice and clean and does not contain all the sky
>> data. and it makes recording programs much easier.
>>
>> Now before I re-invent the wheel, I was wondering if such a thing
>> already exists.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Johan
>>
>>     
>
> I haven't seen such a script, but remove the channels you don't want 
> from your channel line up, and then mythfilldatabase will only import 
> program data for the channels you have.
>
> Or if you don't want to go that far, just set the channels you don't 
> have access to, to not visible.  Then they won't appear in your 
> Schedule recordings screens.
>
>   
If you run mythfilldatabase automatically on the schedule it usually
adds in any channels included in the XMLTV stream

Steve

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