[mythtvnz] Sky EPG problems

[Duncan Kennington]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 at 23:17 Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:22:20 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >> On 6/06/2018, at 23:05, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> As a temporary workaround, I am now running EPG collection at 10 past
> >> and 20 to the hour, so that I can pick up the now/next EPG on the
> >> affected channels.  That allows existing recording rules to work, but
> >> without EPG for a longer period, creating new recording rules will be
> >> very difficult.
> >
> >Thanks Stephen, I’ve added a similar precess to my machine in the
> meantime too.
> >
> >- Wade
>
> It looks like there is full week EPG available in OpenTV format on
> 12519.  When I first looked at it, there was only one day available,
> but it now has the full week for the affected channels I have looked
> at.  OpenTV format EPG can be collected using EPG Collector (on
> Windows, but may be able to be run using mono on Linux).  TVHeadend
> also can do OpenTV, but the export option from TVHeadend does not seem
> to export the full data available, just certain fields of it.
>
> I am investigating further what is needed to use OpenTV EPG with
> MythTV.  But I have also phoned Sky on Friday - I asked the helpdesk
> person to please pass on a message to their engineers about the one
> week EIT EPG going missing.  I hope they will be like most engineers I
> know and want everything to be working properly, and fix it.
>
>
Has anyone come up with a better alternative to running EPG Collector on
Windows for this?  I don't especially want to spool up a new Windows server
just for this if I can avoid it.  And certainly not if the data collected
is not consumable by Myth...
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