[mythtvnz] EPG and FOUR Plus One

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:31:46 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>I have no data from later today for the FOUR Plus One channel (use to be C4).
>>
>>I haven't seen anything on this list about this change - just wanted to check
>>if it was just me or not.
>>
>>Also missing data for 3 Plus One from later tomorrow  Everything else seems
>>fine.
>>
>>Thanks
>
> I had not noticed that C4 change until you mentioned it.  The actual
> change is that C4 has been deleted from the Mediaworks mux and a new
> Four Plus 1 channel added with serviceid 1305.  It just happens to be
> using the same channel number as C4 did: 9.
>
> I checked my downloaded TV3 Plus 1 data and it ends at the end of
> Wednesday like yours.  So I downloaded the latest freeview.xml.gz file
> from epg.org.nz and it does not have any data for TV3 Plus 1, just the
> channel id for it.  It seems the script that builds the EPG file must
> have developed a problem with TV3 Plus 1 in the last few days.
>
> The MHEG5 data I just fetched has listings for TV3 Plus 1 well beyond
> Wednesday.  It also has listings for yes-shop.freeviewnz.tv, which is
> not in the downloaded EPG at all (no channel id).
>
> When I ran a channel scan with scan-s2, I also found a new channel on
> the Mediaworks mux: The Edge TV (channel 11, serviceid 1306).  The
> MHEG5 EPG has data for this channel too.
>
> I am guessing that the xmltvid values for the new channels will be
> something like four-plus1.freeviewnz.tv and theedgetv.freeviewnz.tv,
> so that is what I put in my database for now so that mhegepgsnoop will
> populate those channels.
>
> On Freeview DVB-S, the Sommet Sports channel has appeared on 12456000
> Hz since I last scanned, which is quite a while ago.  It is serviceid
> 1937.
>
> It looks as though Sky has been rearranging its channels too - I ran a
> new scan and a number of channels have shifted to different muxes and
> there are a couple of new ones, as well as C4 being removed.  I will
> have a look at all those changes later and publish a new channels.conf
> file.

Frankly I just leave the Plus1 channels out of my database, there is
no need for them if you have mythtv (provided you have enough tuners
and I do).

It annoys me that we have this repetition instead of decent channels
like the old TVNZ6/7.

No wonder "pirating" is going so strong, hard to find anything to
watch around here.