[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[tortise]

On 1/05/2012 10:43 p.m., David Moore wrote:
> On 1/05/2012, at 9:16 PM, tortise<tortise at paradise.net.nz>  wrote:
>
>> On 1/05/2012 8:36 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>>>> 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)
>>
>> dvbhdhomerun  ??
>>
> I wonder if myth does something similar? Is there something hiding in the /dev tree? Or does myth create a socket? Can it be used (non-blocking)? Just thinking out loud.


I understand the mythtv guys compile in the hdhomerun open source code 
with a few tweaks from here and there along the way so that its all in 
mythtv.  Some people may not be aware of 
http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html