On 3/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk">rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk</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;">
Stefan Haflidason wrote:<br><br>> On 3/22/06, *Richard Smith* <<a href="mailto:rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk">rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk">rick_t_smith@yahoo.co.uk
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Stefan Haflidason wrote:<br>><br>> > On 3/22/06, *Stefan Haflidason* <<a href="mailto:styrmis@googlemail.com">styrmis@googlemail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:styrmis@googlemail.com">
styrmis@googlemail.com</a>><br>> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:styrmis@googlemail.com">styrmis@googlemail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:styrmis@googlemail.com">styrmis@googlemail.com</a>>>><br>> wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > On 3/22/06, *Dave* < <a href="mailto:lists@netsalve.com">lists@netsalve.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@netsalve.com">lists@netsalve.com</a>><br>>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@netsalve.com">lists@netsalve.com</a>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@netsalve.com">lists@netsalve.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > 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<br>> > weekend).<br>> >> I've been looking at setting up the channels, and I am already
<br>> > resigned to<br>> >> the fact that the configuration must be done in a rather<br>> > laborious way.<br>> >><br>> >> As a test, I just tried adding BBC1, BBC2 and E4, using the rt
<br>> xmltv<br>> >> grabber. E4 was skipped as the id wasn't correct, and the BBC<br>> > 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<br>> > update to the<br>> >> rt channel ids. I updated to this version, but was met with a
<br>> > different<br>> >> manner (perhaps unacceptable) of configuration. In the<br>> > configuration (in<br>> >> the console, started from mythtv-setup) I was asked to say yes or
<br>> > no to<br>> >> each channel the grabber new about. This is not as friendly as<br>> > the search<br>> >> interface of the previous versions.<br>> >>
<br>> >> So for the moment I have downgraded. For the others who are<br>> trying to<br>> >> record Sky, what have your solutions been? As far as I can tell<br>> > 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
<br>> > any tips<br>> >> for how to set up the required Sky channels , based on your<br>> > experiences? I<br>> >> have channel changing sorted (though untested) using a device
<br>> > from Joseph<br>> >> Heenan, but no channels.<br>> >><br>> >> 2) I think I may try and just edit the xmltv config file created<br>> > in the<br>> >> .mythtv directory directly and avoid the configuration utility.
<br>> > 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<br>> > position<br>> >> of needing to install this system in ~1 day. There is very<br>> little to<br>
> >> configure, but the bit that's left is rather crucial so I really<br>> > appreciate<br>> >> your input.<br>> >> **<br>> ><br>> > The attached file
Antenna.xmltv contains most of the Sky<br>> Channels<br>> > - hope it<br>> > helps.<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> > Dave<br>> ><br>> >
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<br>> ><br>> > Dave,<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for the list. I just checked the e4 id in it and it's the<br>> > id which was skipped when grabbing channels for being
<br>> incorrect.<br>> ><br>> > I'll have to try and find out where to get the new ids as they<br>> > come out. I'd be happy to maintain such a list for those of<br>> us in
<br>> > the UK. Perhaps it is in the xmltv source?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > I suppose one way is to update the relevant files (for the grabber<br>> > only) from CVS:
<br>> > <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/">http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/</a><br>> <<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/">
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/</a>><br>> ><br>> > Though I would like to know where the people who update the list<br>> found<br>> > there get their information.
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> I'm running very happily but I confess that I skipped the channel<br>> grabbing. I really don't want to bother with all the sky channels so
<br>> grabbed a few and did the rest manually ( but I'm pretty happy with<br>> using SQL). It didn't take long and works a treat.<br>><br>> I use it in conjunction with the sky channel changer and it works just
<br>> fine (apart from my daughter changing the channel to watch Friends or<br>> 'whatever' in the middle of the Test Match.....<br>><br>> Rick<br>><br>><br>> ___________________________________________________________
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>><br>> That's somewhat reassuring, thanks Rick. My concern is that although<br>> <a href="http://e4.channel4.com">e4.channel4.com</a> <<a href="http://e4.channel4.com">
http://e4.channel4.com</a>> appears in all the<br>> configurations I've seen, mythfilldatabase refuses to acknowledge it<br>> as valid and skips it.<br>><br>> My brother isn't going to miss E4 necessarily, but if it happens with
<br>> other channels I'm not sure what the manual workaround is. My only<br>> idea is to add it to the mythconverg database manually and see what<br>> happens. Is that what other people do?<br>><br>><br>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>><br>Oh, and my channel entry for E4 (freeview; DVB remember) is<br>mysql> select * from channel where name regexp "E4";<br>+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
<br>| chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name | icon |<br>finetune | videofilters | xmltvid | recpriority | contrast |<br>brightness | colour | hue | tvformat | commfree | visible |<br>outputfilters | useonairguide | mplexid | serviceid | atscsrcid |
<br>+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
<br>|
3041 |
14 | | 3
| E4 | E4 | none |<br>0
| |
<a href="http://e4.channel4.com">e4.channel4.com</a>
| 0
| 32768
| 32768<br>| 32768 |
32768 |
Default | 0
| 1 |<br>|
1 | 2
| 8448
| 0 |<br>+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
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Rick,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the information. I created the channel manually in
mythtv-setup and now it works fine. I should have tried the simple
things before digging around in CVS! From what I can see Myth will
integrate very well with Sky.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the input.<br>
<br>
Stefan.<br>
<br>
<br>