[mythtv-users] mythtv users in the UK - EPG

[David]

Craig Tinson wrote:

> Guys..
>
> Anyone in the UK managed to get a properly working and usable program 
> guide yet?

Pretty happy with _rt (apart from the speed!)

> with categories (for color highlighting etc) and channel icons?

no - nothing doing. I don't think the data exist on the RT site does it?

> I seem to have problems with _bleb being a tad unreliable and not 
> enough detail with RT (even with -slow) option..
>
> Is there a definitive solution? I know there isn't a howto for this.. 
> but maybe one could be put together.. am sure there are enough of us 
> in the UK using Myth to warrant it..

There was some chat a while back about writing a 'shared grabber'.
Could work but probably has copyriight issues.

At the minute I just run it on a machine that has fast access which then 
mails me the results and I parse them into mythfilldatabase...

David