[mythtvnz] mythtvnz Digest, Vol 12, Issue 48

[Graeme Woollett]

Ross and Jemima wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the welcome and advice.  Funny story really.  I had used up
> my broadband allowance downloading everything to install my system so I
> hadn't tried the following until after I posted the other day.  I added
> the suggested repository and left the system to download the updates
> (18MB at dialup speed) and when I got back later it scanned and found
> all the channels!  Yay.  And Kenneth you're right, everything does work
> out of the box pretty much (I did turn on the LNA already).  Only thing
> now is it seems there is only one days worth of EPG being broadcast.
> I'm used to the DVB-S where I had 8 days worth and it was great because
> you can set all your fav shows to be recorded.  Is there a way to fix
> this (download data from elsewhere)?
>
> Also if anyone wants any feedback on anything let me know.  My server
> doesn't have a graphics card so I may not get good HD playback on the
> server itself but the idea was to watch it elsewhere so hopefully there
> won't be a problem streaming video.
>
> Ross
>
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong...
For the DVB-T EPG feed Freeview in their wisdom decided to only include 
a time windowed EPG feed, so you only get an hour or two at a time. 
I fixed this by using tv_grab_nz to pull the xml EPG for the Freeview 
channels from the internet, and mythfilldatabase to populate mythtv with 
7 days of data. 
If you have DVB-S as well as T, then you could use epgsnoop to massage 
the EIT from the satellite.