[mythtvnz] epgsnoop confusing Prime and TVNZ 7

[Steven Ellis]

On Sun, August 3, 2008 4:13 pm, Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> The title says it all!!
>>
>> My Prime listing for the last few days have contained TVNZ7 listings
>> instead!
>>
>> Has Prime moved on Sky or does Sky now transmit TVNZ7 and hence have EPG
>> data for it?
>>
>> I'm using xmltvid values of prime.sky.co.nz and tvnz7.freeviewnz.tv so
>> it
>> must be getting data wrong at the grab stage. This is the sort of thing
>> I
>> end up with my listings-sky.xml file
>>
>>   <programme start="20080802180000 +1200" stop="20080802181000 +1200"
>> channel="prime.sky.co.nz">
>>     <title lang="eng">TVNZ News Now</title>
>>     <desc>TVNZ News Now: A ten-minute news bulletin to give New
>> Zealanders
>> a summary of the news they need to know hour by hour.</desc>
>>     <category>tvshow</category>
>>   </programme>
>>
>>
>> Very confused as I can't find an up-to-date channels.conf file for
>> either
>> freeview or Sky :-(
>>
>
> Sorted!!
>
> Turns out that by coincidence I've been recording something from Freeview
> 3 nights running at 1:00am when the epgsnoop script wants to tune to the
> Sky multiplex to get the Prime epg.
>
> As it happens, Prime is on pid 1038 on the Sky mux and TVNZ7 is the same
> pid on the Freeview mux so having failed to tune, epgsnoop grabbed the
> wrong data!! Guess I'll have to improve the script that runs
> dvbtune/epgsnoop to avoid this since it of course overrides existing Prime
> data.
>

I recommend doing a grep for a freeview unique PID like 1921. If it isn't
present then it isn't valid data.

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