[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase + tv_grab_uk_rt

[Greg]

There are some channel numbers on the radiotimes site, but I think they have
them mixed up with the ntl ones, at least it looks that way to me.
I wouldn't mind a copy of your scripts please.

Ta,
Greg

> Hi All,
> 
> Has anybody had any problems with this? I found a bug or two 
> in the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber, and after fixing them up then 
> found myth would require manually supplying all the channel 
> data channel by channel to get the database fill working. (it 
> didnt prompt for available channels and died without error if 
> an invalid channel name was supplied).
> 
> I've hacked up a bit of script to 'skeleton' populate the 
> channel DB with channel numbers, etc, using 1000+<number> for 
> chanid, <number> for channum, descriptions from the RT site, 
> callsigns from the XMLTV grabber and icons from the 
> tv_grab_uk_bleb iconlist file where its possible to 
> automatch.  After finding the iconurl we just use LWP to pull 
> it down to the mythtv users 'channels' dir and leave it with 
> the same filename it had on the remote web site.
> 
> This is based around a sky digital package with so many 
> channels manual input for everything would be a pain in the 
> backside - however, I cant find any online up to date 
> reference for the channel numbers used by Sky for changing 
> via IR blaster, so that still needs to go in manually.
> 
> Sooo...
> 
> 1) Anyone else had that problem? Got a more elegant fix?
> 2) Anyone want my fixed tv_grab_uk_rt or the makechan.pl 
> channel table filler?
> 3) Anyone know where I might find an online reference of Sky 
> channel name -> Channel number?
> 4) Is just leaving freqid blank and using an arbitrary number 
> for chanid ok? :)
>