[mythtvnz] TV3 => Three

[Bruce Wilson]

On 6 March 2017 at 16:51, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 06/03/17 15:52, Bruce Wilson wrote:
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> On 6 March 2017 at 15:08, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz>
>> wrote:
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>>> I have been promoting MythTV as an alternative to TiVo on Geekzone.co.nz.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately much of what I have said has been rebuffed. They seem to
>>> want an off the shelf replacement which seems to me a bit weird on Geekzone.
>>>
>>> This morning when someone said ".lack of a full 7 day EPG via standard
>>> EIT data is what's limiting the alternatives."
>>> I replied - "My MythTV setup is still receiving up to 8 days of EIT
>>> data."
>>> to which he replied - "Depends on where you are getting it from.  I can
>>> guarantee it's not from the terrestrial EIT service."
>>>
>>> I give up.
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>> Are you saying DVB-T now has 8 days EIT data. At one point EIT data was
>> now/next and the 7 day data was coming from MHEG.
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> I have been getting 7 days of EIT data since Aug 2015
>
> Cheers
> Bruce
>
> I fired up MythTV on my laptop and configured it to use the EIT as listings
> grabber and indeed there _is_ 7 days of data in the EPG. Nice. I wonder if
> there is any difference now between the data in the EIT and the MHEG EPG?
>

Hi David,
As you know, I was using mhegsnoop, but when I updated my system to
the latest debian. Something broke with retrieving the data from the
dvb-t stream, and I turned on the EIT data, and found 7 days! so I
have been too lazy to fix my mhegsnoop problem.

Cheers
Bruce