[mythtvnz] EPG Data for 'niche' channels ?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 11/05/12 12:21, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Steven Ellis<steven at openmedia.co.nz>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 6:26 pm, David Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/05/12 17:18, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 3:14 pm, David Moore wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/05/12 09:07, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi David. In your MythTV setup for the freeview source what time zone
>>>>>>> do
>>>>>>> you set for the EPG. In my case I default to using AUTO as I import
>>>>>>> multiple EPG feeds for different timezones, for example SBS (now
>>>>>>> sadly
>>>>>>> off
>>>>>>> air).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I generate listings with epgsnoop the data contains the +1200
>>>>>>> offset
>>>>>>> based on my local system vs the DVB data.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the case of DTT I merge DVB and MHEG data so that my DTT and DTH
>>>>>>> channels are being provided with identical EPG information. For the
>>>>>>> DTT
>>>>>>> exclusive channels I just pull them from the MHEG file using tv_split
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> tv_cat.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Steve. My setting is "none" for the EPG timezone. I only have DVB-T
>>>>>> so it works fine with the MHEG EPG local times. I'll probably do a
>>>>>> quick
>>>>>> fix just for you :) that gives you the option to generate UTC +1200
>>>>>> (or
>>>>>> +1300 for DST). Then I'll think about a more general solution. /David
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave. That would be brilliant. Cheers
>>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>>> Steven Ellis - Technical Director
>>>>> OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR
>>>>> email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
>>>>> website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Version 0.3.4 just uploaded. Turned out to be not so simple because (a)
>>>> I decided to try and do it right rather than quick and dirty and (b)
>>>> surprisingly Python doesn't do time zones very well. Anyway I think it
>>>> works. Just add "-z" command line arg. Enjoy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nice try but times are off by a couple of hours.
>>
>>
>> 12 hours isn't it? (one says 0600 hours or 6am, t'other says 1800 or 6pm)
>>
>>>
>>> For example take from DVB-S i get
>>>
>>> <programme channel="1035.dvb.guide" start="20120512180000 +1200"
>>> stop="20120512190000 +1200">
>>>        <title lang="eng">ONE News At 6pm</title>
>>>        <desc>The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the
>>> latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather
>>> report.</desc>
>>>        <category>tvshow</category>
>>>        <category>News/Current Affairs</category>
>>>        <!-- Cat:2-0 -->
>>>        <!-- Unknown rating:0 -->
>>> </programme>
>>>
>>>
>>>  From MHEG I get
>>>
>>>        <programme channel="1200.dvb.guide" start="20120511060000 +1200"
>>> stop="20120511070000 +1200">
>>>                <title>ONE News At 6pm</title>
>>>                <desc>The nation's leading team of journalists brings
>>> viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most
>>> comprehensive weather report.</desc>
>>>                <episode-num system="dd_progid">10272257</episode-num>
>>>                <subtitles type="teletext" />
>>>        </programme>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>
> Well it looks like the DVB-S date/time is wrong to me. The UTC time for news
> at 6 pm should be 2012mmdd060000 because we're 12 hours ahead of UTC.

No no no, the timezone is +1200 and the date/time is specified in the
that timezone, in other words 1800 hours NZ time (which is 1200 ahead
of UTC).



>The
> MHEG UTC time 2012mmdd060000 +1200 equals 6 pm local. Are you using a time
> offset of 12 hrs in the myth EPG config or just the auto setting with no
> offset?
>
> I have a minor tweak ready to upload which just produces UTC times with no
> offset. Maybe that will help.
>
>
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