On 3/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@netsalve.com">lists@netsalve.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:00, Stefan Haflidason wrote:<br>> How happy are those of you who record Sky programs with MythTV?<br>><br>> I don't have a Sky box (but I need to install with a Sky box this weekend).<br>
> I've been looking at setting up the channels, and I am already resigned to<br>> the fact that the configuration must be done in a rather laborious way.<br>><br>> As a test, I just tried adding BBC1, BBC2 and E4, using the rt xmltv
<br>> grabber. E4 was skipped as the id wasn't correct, and the BBC channels were<br>> grabbed correctly.<br>><br>> mythfilldatabase ran and populated correctly as far as I can see.<br>><br>> The current release of xmltv is
0.5.42 and brings with it an update to the<br>> rt channel ids. I updated to this version, but was met with a different<br>> manner (perhaps unacceptable) of configuration. In the configuration (in<br>> the console, started from mythtv-setup) I was asked to say yes or no to
<br>> each channel the grabber new about. This is not as friendly as the search<br>> interface of the previous versions.<br>><br>> So for the moment I have downgraded. For the others who are trying to<br>> record Sky, what have your solutions been? As far as I can tell all that
<br>> needs changing are the channel ids that xmltv uses.<br>><br>> My questions:<br>><br>> 1) How do other people cope with xmltv ids changing? Do you have any tips<br>> for how to set up the required Sky channels , based on your experiences? I
<br>> have channel changing sorted (though untested) using a device from Joseph<br>> Heenan, but no channels.<br>><br>> 2) I think I may try and just edit the xmltv config file created in the<br>> .mythtv directory directly and avoid the configuration utility. Is this
<br>> acceptable or does the utility do something else?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Stefan.<br>><br>> P.S. I would normally just experiment, but I'm in the unfortunate position<br>> of needing to install this system in ~1 day. There is very little to
<br>> configure, but the bit that's left is rather crucial so I really appreciate<br>> your input.<br>> **<br><br>The attached file Antenna.xmltv contains most of the Sky Channels - hope it<br>helps.<br><br>Regards,
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Dave,<br>
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Thanks for the list. I just checked the e4 id in it and it's the id
which was skipped when grabbing channels for being incorrect.<br>
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I'll have to try and find out where to get the new ids as they come
out. I'd be happy to maintain such a list for those of us in the UK.
Perhaps it is in the xmltv source?<br>
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