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        <div>On 02/25/2015 09:47 AM, Dan Wilga
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          <div>On 2/25/15 10:33 AM, John P Poet
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                <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:27
                  AM, Dan Wilga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv-users2@dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu" target="_blank">mythtv-users2@dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu</a>></span>
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                    <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Hm. I actually
                      wrote a script to scrape the web page listing the
                      channels offered for free, and send me an email
                      when it changes. If only that page's format was
                      structured strictly enough that I could pull out
                      the list of channels and dates I could show/hide
                      the channels as needed. Instead, that page is
                      obviously maintained by a human who changes the
                      structure frequently.<br>
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              <div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.freepreview.tv/" target="_blank">http://www.freepreview.tv/</a><br>
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          Thanks for pointing me to that site, but it's still not
          structured data. Not only that, it seems to be crowdsourced,
          so it's likely to be more out-of-date than Dish's site.<br>
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          I think I need to wait until a channel I don't subscribe to is
          being offered for free and see if the output from the
          receiver's AuthChannels.xml feed changes. If so, I could
          periodically parse that file and change the available channel
          list in Myth. (Thanks, Jon H., for figuring out that this feed
          exists.)<br>
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        I can confirm that with the ViP222k, the "AuthChannels.xml" list
        changes to reflect free previews, including movie channels.  <br>
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        The channels are made available on the high 9200+ channel
        numbers.<br>
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      Perhaps this question is for Jon:  Do we know if the data fetched
      by http://[IP-ADDRESS]:49200/AuthChannels.xml is always up to
      date, or does the SOAP call in vip211-channellist need to be done
      first? If I can omit that step, all the better.<br>
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    On the 222k, I think the list is unchanged until you explicitly call
    GetAuthChannelList.  The AuthChannels.xml file remains available
    after the call until the next system (daily) 'update'.<br>
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<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same on the 211.  The url eventually goes 404.</div><div><br></div><div>I had thought about a wget or curl option.</div><div><br></div><div>Jon </div></div></div></div>