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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> mythtv-users <mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>UB40D<br><b>Sent:</b> 30 December 2019 23:55<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] channel4 hd has no eit<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 16:14, Paul Shepherd <<a href="mailto:paul@whitelands.org.uk">paul@whitelands.org.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br>As others have said the 7 day EPG disappeared when CH4 fell out with Freesat. <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>OK, got that, thanks. Glad to hear there' s an explanation.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>For a while I relied on CH4 SD EIT for 7 day information and the EIT for the HD programme being updated just before it was broadcast. That seemed to become unreliable and I subsequently switched to using a daily cron job running mythfilldatabase with xmltv and uk_grab_tv_bleb for just this channel - works fine for me.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What exactly does your cron job do?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Following the first suggestion in this thread I was able to extract the EIT from Ch4 SD as XML, but my attempts at importing it back into the database as Ch4 HD have failed so far. I have also tried the<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> mythutil --resched<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(though not the sql hacking) of another suggestion and the new schedule data still doesn' t appear.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I feel I' m close but I must obviously still be doing something wrong. What?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Failing that, isn't there a way to say "I want to record on Ch4 HD (a channel I can tune to) on this day from this time to that time"? I have a feeling there USED to be a way to say that, though I haven' t used it in many years; but, much as I searched, I could not find it in the current UI.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My crontab entry is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>05 10 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --only-update-guide --sourceid 2 --logpath /home/paul/.mythtv/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I manually edited the mythconverg database using phpMyAdmin which is dangerous however it is sometimes easier if you know what you want to achieve.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the videosources table I added a row with sourceid=2 and set xmltvgrabber=uk_grab_tv_bleb<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the channel table for the channel 4HD row I set name=satellite and xmltvid=ch4_hd which matches the text in .xmltv/tv_grab_uk_bleb.conf<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In .mythtv/ there is a file called satellite.xmltv containing one line with the text ch4_hd<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It was a bit fiddly, there are some aging wiki pages which got me started <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV</a> and <a href="http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/Britain_and_Ireland">http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/Britain_and_Ireland</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>