[mythtvnz] TV3 => Three

[Karl - skooobie]

*Mythweb replacement (localhost:6544) =>*

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On 7 March 2017 at 07:32, Karl - skooobie <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:

> *EIT Mythfill =>*
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> On 7 March 2017 at 07:31, Karl - skooobie <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> *Schedules Direct =>*
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>> On 7 March 2017 at 07:31, Karl - skooobie <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert F and I shared a few images of our respective schedules (mine
>>> with EIT) and Robert's at the time with Schedules Direct, when it was
>>> trialed a little while back. We found the differences to be trivial and
>>> amount of days 7-8 too little to worry about. Meaning EIT (over the air
>>> delivered) was sufficient for our needs. For interest here is a few pics
>>> between EIT and Scheduels Direct. The grabbers show information levels in
>>> between the two. So as you can see no real difference. The first images
>>> show the png icons and how they display of further interest.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll send some follow up pics for Schedules Direct, daily mythfill and
>>> Mythweb's replacement.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *EIT* (native in mythtv) =>
>>>
>>> [image: Inline images 1]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I used to run a small python script I wrote to check the mythfill
>>> remaining days and if it dropped below 5 it would email me and always wrote
>>> to a log in any case. On checking the log it was never below 5 for well
>>> over a year that I tested it and forgot about it. Then I checked and
>>> stopped the daily cron.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>> On 7 March 2017 at 06:06, Karl - skooobie <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been using mythtv with EIT for the past 4 years only dabbling
>>>> with Internet provided listings info. It has never failed to provide 7 days
>>>> or lack of any important info.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/03/2017 17:22, "Bruce Wilson" <acaferacer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6 March 2017 at 16:51, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>>> > On 06/03/17 15:52, Bruce Wilson wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 6 March 2017 at 15:08, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> 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.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 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.
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > 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
>>>>
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>>>
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