[mythtv-users] Sky integration
Stefan Haflidason
styrmis at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 23 00:43:17 UTC 2006
On 3/22/06, Rick Smith <rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Stefan Haflidason wrote:
>
> > On 3/22/06, *Richard Smith* <rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk
> > <mailto:rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> > Stefan Haflidason wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/22/06, *Stefan Haflidason* <styrmis at googlemail.com
> > <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com>
> > > <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com>>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On 3/22/06, *Dave* < lists at netsalve.com
> > <mailto:lists at netsalve.com>
> > > <mailto:lists at netsalve.com <mailto:lists at netsalve.com>>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:00, Stefan Haflidason wrote:
> > >> How happy are those of you who record Sky programs with MythTV?
> > >>
> > >> I don't have a Sky box (but I need to install with a Sky box this
> > > weekend).
> > >> I've been looking at setting up the channels, and I am already
> > > resigned to
> > >> the fact that the configuration must be done in a rather
> > > laborious way.
> > >>
> > >> As a test, I just tried adding BBC1, BBC2 and E4, using the rt
> > xmltv
> > >> grabber. E4 was skipped as the id wasn't correct, and the BBC
> > > channels were
> > >> grabbed correctly.
> > >>
> > >> mythfilldatabase ran and populated correctly as far as I can see.
> > >>
> > >> The current release of xmltv is 0.5.42 and brings with it an
> > > update to the
> > >> rt channel ids. I updated to this version, but was met with a
> > > different
> > >> manner (perhaps unacceptable) of configuration. In the
> > > configuration (in
> > >> the console, started from mythtv-setup) I was asked to say yes or
> > > no to
> > >> each channel the grabber new about. This is not as friendly as
> > > the search
> > >> interface of the previous versions.
> > >>
> > >> So for the moment I have downgraded. For the others who are
> > trying to
> > >> record Sky, what have your solutions been? As far as I can tell
> > > all that
> > >> needs changing are the channel ids that xmltv uses.
> > >>
> > >> My questions:
> > >>
> > >> 1) How do other people cope with xmltv ids changing? Do you have
> > > any tips
> > >> for how to set up the required Sky channels , based on your
> > > experiences? I
> > >> have channel changing sorted (though untested) using a device
> > > from Joseph
> > >> Heenan, but no channels.
> > >>
> > >> 2) I think I may try and just edit the xmltv config file created
> > > in the
> > >> .mythtv directory directly and avoid the configuration utility.
> > > Is this
> > >> acceptable or does the utility do something else?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Stefan.
> > >>
> > >> P.S. I would normally just experiment, but I'm in the unfortunate
> > > position
> > >> of needing to install this system in ~1 day. There is very
> > little to
> > >> configure, but the bit that's left is rather crucial so I really
> > > appreciate
> > >> your input.
> > >> **
> > >
> > > The attached file Antenna.xmltv contains most of the Sky
> > Channels
> > > - hope it
> > > helps.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the list. I just checked the e4 id in it and it's
> the
> > > id which was skipped when grabbing channels for being
> > incorrect.
> > >
> > > I'll have to try and find out where to get the new ids as they
> > > come out. I'd be happy to maintain such a list for those of
> > us in
> > > the UK. Perhaps it is in the xmltv source?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I suppose one way is to update the relevant files (for the grabber
> > > only) from CVS:
> > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/
> > <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/>
> > >
> > > Though I would like to know where the people who update the list
> > found
> > > there get their information.
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > I'm running very happily but I confess that I skipped the channel
> > grabbing. I really don't want to bother with all the sky channels
> so
> > grabbed a few and did the rest manually ( but I'm pretty happy with
> > using SQL). It didn't take long and works a treat.
> >
> > I use it in conjunction with the sky channel changer and it works
> just
> > fine (apart from my daughter changing the channel to watch Friends
> or
> > 'whatever' in the middle of the Test Match.....
> >
> > Rick
> >
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> > That's somewhat reassuring, thanks Rick. My concern is that although
> > e4.channel4.com <http://e4.channel4.com> appears in all the
> > configurations I've seen, mythfilldatabase refuses to acknowledge it
> > as valid and skips it.
> >
> > My brother isn't going to miss E4 necessarily, but if it happens with
> > other channels I'm not sure what the manual workaround is. My only
> > idea is to add it to the mythconverg database manually and see what
> > happens. Is that what other people do?
> >
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> Oh, and my channel entry for E4 (freeview; DVB remember) is
> mysql> select * from channel where name regexp "E4";
>
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
> | chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name | icon |
> finetune | videofilters | xmltvid | recpriority | contrast |
> brightness | colour | hue | tvformat | commfree | visible |
> outputfilters | useonairguide | mplexid | serviceid | atscsrcid |
>
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
> | 3041 | 14 | | 3 | E4 | E4 | none |
> 0 | | e4.channel4.com | 0 | 32768 | 32768
> | 32768 | 32768 | Default | 0 | 1 |
> | 1 | 2 | 8448 | 0 |
>
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
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Rick,
Thanks for the information. I created the channel manually in mythtv-setup
and now it works fine. I should have tried the simple things before digging
around in CVS! From what I can see Myth will integrate very well with Sky.
Thanks for the input.
Stefan.
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