[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Mon, April 30, 2012 3:45 pm, David Moore wrote:
>> On 30/04/12 11:52, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>
>>> So who here is using this for the DTT channels?
>>>
>>> I've had a play with mhegepgsnooppy and what I really need is a way to
>>> provide a mapping file rather than have it probe the MythTV database.
>>> The
>>> box i'd usually be running this on has a tuner card, but isn't running
>>> MythTV.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>> Just uploaded version 0.3.3 with option to specify a channel map file.
>> File format is two fields per row, tab separated, with MHEG channel name
>> first and xmltv channel ID second. Only briefly tested so quite likely
>> buggy.
>>
>
> Nice work. Provisional testing worked for me.
>
> I generated the mapping file off a channel scan as follows
>
> cat ../dtt/dtt.conf  | cut -f 1,13 -d ":" \
> | sed "s/:/ /g" | sed "s/$/.dvb.guide/g" > mheg.list
>
> Then once the card was tuned I could run the EPG grabber and get all the
> freeview|HD channels.

I guess mhegepgsnoopy does not work for a hdhomerun?

(there is no dvb device to specify)