[mythtv-users] Recording from Sky?

Alastair Kerr alastair.kerr at ed.ac.uk
Tue Jan 13 10:44:25 UTC 2009


Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 12/01/09 14:54, Alastair Kerr typed ...
>   
>> Now has anyone managed to automate capture of the sky channel numbers?  
>> I have been  stung a couple of times with the semi-regular re-numbering. 
>> Granted it does not take too long to go through them with a mythweb 
>> browser window open alongside sky's web site bit it is still a chore. 
>>     
>
>    I'm getting there;  I cobbled together a perl script recently that takes 
> the RT XMLTV grabber data (for xmltvids), scrapes the digitialspy website's 
> list of Sky channels, then tried to match these up, giving a tally of Sky 
> channel <-> xmltvid.
>
>    The idea then is to go through the d/b looknig for xmltvids in this list 
> that have a channum+freqid setting that doesn't match.
>
>    It's sort of getting there, I'll share what I have so far soon.  I have 
> had to ignore certain ones (e.g,. BBC1/2/ITV) where the actual sky broadcast 
> is regionalised (e.g., BBC1-SE) andso everyone will have a diff. xmltvid 
> (matching their region), and also ones that RT doesn't list.
>
>    I guess the 'ideal' solution is for this sort of thing to be wrapped up 
> into the xmltv grabbers somehow, but that would require someone to maintain 
> a hadr-list of sky channel <-> xmltvid.
>
>   
This sounds very promising. Any sort of  'lookup table'  would be 
extremely useful.  I look forward to seeing what you have done
- Al


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