[mythtv-users] scheduling ...

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:19:49 +0000, you wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 10:53, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26/02/2019 10:25, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> > Without having a copy of the EPG data it is hard to tell exactly what
>> > the problem is, but my guess is that it is the usual problem - bad EPG
>> > data.  Ideally, the EPG data will be like this example from New
>> > Zealand's Choice TV channel:
>> >
>> >          <programme channel="choice.freeviewnz.tv"
>> > start="20190305153000 +1300" stop="20190305163000 +1300">
>> >                  <title>Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest</title>
>> >                  <desc>Frank Gardner has always dreamed of seeing birds
>> > of paradise. Frank and Benedict Allen journey across some of Earth’s
>> > most inhospitable terrain, both haunted by brutal memories from their
>> > pasts.</desc>
>> >                  <episode-num
>> > system="dd_progid">BOPUQ01Ep1</episode-num>
>> >                  <rating system="Freeview">
>> >                          <value>G</value>
>> >                  </rating>
>> >          </programme>
>> >
>> Stephen:  I haven't seen this sort of data before.  Just haven't looked
>> hard enough, I suppose.   How?
>>
>
>If I am correct in thinking that this is mapped to ProgramId, then you can
>get this information for any episode from the database via the MythTV
>services API.

Yes, that XML data gets mapped to program.programid in MythTV:

MariaDB [mythconverg]> select * from program where title like 'Birds
Of Paradise%'\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
                 chanid: 1012
              starttime: 2019-03-05 02:30:00
                endtime: 2019-03-05 03:30:00
                  title: Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest
               subtitle:
            description: Frank Gardner has always dreamed of seeing
birds of paradise. Frank and Benedict Allen journey across some of
Earthâ??s most inhospitable terrain, both haunted by brutal memories
from their pasts.
               category:
          category_type:
                airdate: 2019
                  stars: 0
        previouslyshown: 0
        title_pronounce:
                 stereo: 0
              subtitled: 0
                   hdtv: 0
         closecaptioned: 0
             partnumber: 0
              parttotal: 0
               seriesid:
        originalairdate: NULL
               showtype:
              colorcode:
syndicatedepisodenumber:
              programid: BOPUQ01Ep1
               manualid: 0
                generic: 0
          listingsource: 4
                  first: 1
                   last: 1
              audioprop:
          subtitletypes:
              videoprop:
                inetref:
                 season: 0
                episode: 0
          totalepisodes: 0
1 row in set (0.00 sec)