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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/25/2015 09:47 AM, Dan Wilga
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/25/15 10:33 AM, John P Poet
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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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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to be more out-of-date than Dish's site.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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