<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 April 2012 16:57, Chris Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrislewis915@gmail.com">chrislewis915@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi<div><br></div><div>After another channel scan of 28.2E after the latest shuffle of channels i find myself again in the position where i have multiple copies of some channels (some don't seem to work, some are regional etc) and I have spenyy hours yet again getting the channel numbers correct.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What do other UK users out there do? It would seem to me some king of sql script to update the channel name and number (including call sign and XMLTVID where required) is the best way to go.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Now I've seen <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments</a> and the scripts there but they dont cover the entire range of FTA channels from what i can see. What i was thinking is that after a full scan a script could scrape the required SID and channel data from lyngsat or somewhere and produce an update script that would rename and number the channels based on this. I'm not suggesting this be implemented in Myth but a script n the wiki would be great.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I e-mailed the lyngsat webmaster address a while ago but never got a reply.</div><div><br></div><div>I would consider trying to do this properly myself but my skills a just not up to it. I'd obviously be prepared to test any script and would shout at all if it trashed my channel listings as its basically trashed already IMO.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, what do other UK DVB-S/S2 users use? As currently my recording schedules are not working correctly. For instance if i set 'Eastenders' to be recorded at any time on any channel for SWMBO then it tries to record one copy of each of the BBC one channels despite the name and subtext looking identical to me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>TIA for any advice</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chris</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that this sort of things has been considered before however there are no simple solutions.</div><div><br></div><div>You need to tie the radio times feed to the lyngsat/kingofsat information. neither provide an easily parse-able feed of information and I havent looked but I guess that it wouldnt be within the terms of service. You would have to strip the information out of the HTML on the website (scraping) which is probably not with the TOS as mentioned and each time they changed their site slightly the code would need tweaking.</div>
<div><br></div><div>after that include all the regional variations, numbering, especially in combination with requirements with selective channel inclusion, Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media and you get an endless number of variations...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Feel free to roll up your sleeves; but this is not as easy as it sounds.</div><div><br>R</div>