[mythtv-users] PVR 250

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 21:33:17 UTC 2006


On 19/01/06, Mike Richardson <doctor at mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:36:01PM +0000, Nick wrote:
> > The freqid is solely used for tuning. I don't think it plays any part
> > in scheduling.
>
> I've set the freqid for the duplicate channel (BBC1, ITV1) etc to be the
> same in each source and that has helped sort out scheduling issues. Now BBC1
> only appears once in the listings and scheduling a program to be recorded
> from channel '1' (BBC1) picks the most appropriate card depending on
> scheduling clashes. This is a very nice system once you get the hang of it.
>
> > I created 3 separate sources - analogue, DVB, and NTL - as I have 3
> > different 'types' of input. I run mythfilldatabase against each
> > sourceid in turn (with an xmltv file for each source containing only
> > the channel available on that source)
>
> Ok, done that.
>
> > (I would like to be able to configure a single grabber file to
> > download a superset of all listings into a single file, and then feed
> > that to mythfilldatabase once (but updating each source specified).
> > However, if you do that MFDB will recreate any channels it finds in
> > the XML that are not present in the database (which without a run time
> > option, is not a feature in my book...))
>
> I see what you mean. It ought to be possible to get MFDB to read the DB pick
> out the sourceid and xmltvid and decide which to update, avoiding the need
> for the perl cache. The --manual option could be used to add more channels,
> if required.
>
> > > Unless there is a way to tell MythTV to limit a card to a subset of channels
> > > then it would seem that I have to use a different mythtv source for the
> > > PVR250 but collecting data from the same data source (Radio times) for a
> > > subset of the channels. I've done this and it appears to work but is this
> > > the best way? (Ignore the other discussion about the DVB card's EPG for
> > > now.)
> >
> > See above. Create one source for analogue channels containing an xmltv
> > file with the 5 channels, and another for DVB containing the DVB
> > channels (its xmltv file should contain the channels available from
> > uk_rt, the remainder will be set up to use the EPG for listings).
>
> Ok, I plan to give this a go. Would it be possible for you to check
> something for me first please? I'm still not convinced that the EPG data is
> as accurate/usable as the RT data.
>
> Could you run this query and see what the data looks like?
>
> mysql> select starttime, title,subtitle from program where title like '%smallville%';

Here's my output based on the uk_rt grabber listings (slightly amended
query). The Radio Times listings are typically more detailed, so I
prefer them over the EPG. I only use the EPG for channels that the
Radio Times xmltv service doesn't carry.

mysql> select chanid, starttime, title,subtitle from program where
title like '%smallville%' order by starttime;
+--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| chanid | starttime           | title                               
| subtitle |
+--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+
|    117 | 2006-01-22 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Mortal   |
|   4016 | 2006-01-22 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Mortal   |
|    118 | 2006-01-22 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Mortal   |
|   4017 | 2006-01-22 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Mortal   |
|    117 | 2006-01-23 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4016 | 2006-01-23 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4017 | 2006-01-23 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    118 | 2006-01-23 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    117 | 2006-01-29 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4016 | 2006-01-29 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    118 | 2006-01-29 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4017 | 2006-01-29 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4016 | 2006-01-29 23:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    117 | 2006-01-29 23:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|   4017 | 2006-01-30 00:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    118 | 2006-01-30 00:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Hidden   |
|    117 | 2006-01-30 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|   4016 | 2006-01-30 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|    118 | 2006-01-30 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|   4017 | 2006-01-30 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|    117 | 2006-01-31 01:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|   4016 | 2006-01-31 01:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|    118 | 2006-01-31 02:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
|   4017 | 2006-01-31 02:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years
| Aqua     |
+--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+
24 rows in set (0.17 sec)

HTH,
Nick


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