[mythtv-users] Ninemsn tv_grab_au problem with Prime?

[Matthew Carle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Smith
> Sent: Saturday, 25 March 2006 9:39 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ninemsn tv_grab_au problem with Prime?
> 
> >>I'm not getting any data for Prime (Seven) for Thursday and Friday 
> >>next week with the ninemsn tv_grab_au script.
> > 
> > [trim]
> > 
> >>Is anyone else having this problem?
> > 
> > 
> > Me too.
> > 
> > In Canberra Prime data ends 6am 30 Mar (Thu), other 
> channels end 6am 1 Apr (Sat).
> 
> They might have changed the column heading again. Used to 
> annoy the hell out of me until I made the channel keys match 
> as substrings a few version back; Here's my conf file (yes, 
> I'm in Canberra too):
> 
> $conf = {
>    'TZ' => '',
>    'services' => [
>      {
>        'name' => 'free',
>        'region' => 'ACT',
>        'regionid' => '126'
>      }
>    ],
>    'slow' => 1
> };
> $channels = {
>    'ABC' => 'act-abc',
>    'ABC2' => 'act-abc2',
>    'PRIME' => 'act-prime',
>    'SBS EASTERN' => 'act-sbs',
>    'CAPITAL' => 'act-capital',
>    'WIN' => 'act-win'
> };
> 
> So as long as "PRIME" stays in the name I'm fine --- my 
> listing go until next Saturday. If you've got something more 
> detailed than "PRIME" then I'd suggest trimming it down (the 
> Prime and Win headings seem to be the
>   worst).
> 
> Michael.
> 

Thanks Michael. Making the names a bit less specific seems to have fixed my
problem.

On an unrelated matter, is the detailed information ever updated after it is
initially downloaded? I can see that if the title changes, then it is always
updated - but I imagine you don't download every detailed page every time. I
have seen the wrong subtitle entered and then corrected at a later date (in
particular, the same subtitle 2 weeks in a row and the second one was
changed to a new episode). This could cause the second one to be missed if
they are detected as duplicates. I have also seen numerous shows that
initially have very generic information, that is updated as the date
approaches.

Maybe it would be worth downloading the new day and tomorrow (which I
believe is the way the US guide data is downloaded). The main problem with
this is it would almost double the bandwidth usage.

Anyway, just some thoughts.

Thanks again for your help.

Matthew.