[mythtvnz] MHEG5 data stops at end of 2024-11-05

[Robert Fisher]

Thanks for the update.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 2:19 PM Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> For the last two days, mhegepgsnoop has not downloaded any new MHEG5
> EPG data beyond the end of 2024-11-05.  On my LG C3 TV, I do have the
> full 7 days of EPG data out to the end of 2024-11-07.  It is likely
> that since the C3 is a fairly new model, it is getting its EPG from
> the EIT data as Freeview now specifies EIT as the current method.  So
> it looks like it is just the MHEG5 data that is affected by this
> problem.
>
> I have used the contact form on freeviewnz.tv to let them know about
> the problem and hopefully it will be fixed before the data runs out.
> There are still heaps of older Freewiew TVs and boxes out there that
> use the MHEG5 data.  But if not, we may need to start using the EIT
> data.  It can be collected directly by mythbackend, but then you do
> not get the enhancements such as series/episode numbers that is
> provided by xmltv-proc-nz.
>
> I can manually download the EIT EPG data using my updated version of
> tv_grab_dvb_plus and then run xmltv-proc-nz on it.  But
> tv_grab_dvb_plus has a bug that means it does not stop collecting the
> EPG data when it has it all, so I can not automate the process
> properly.  It look like I will need to spend some time to see if I can
> fix that bug, in case we need it to collect the EIT data.
>
> The EIT data can also be collected using the Windows program EPG
> Collector.
>
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