[mythtv-users] Listings for radio channels on freesat

Andrew Williams andy at tensixtyone.com
Wed Jun 18 15:07:00 UTC 2008


2008/6/18 Robin Neatherway <robthebob at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in recording a few radio programmes to listen to on my
> phone later. I'm currently using freesat in the UK so was wondering
> what people would suggest for getting listings for these channels.
> Currently I am thinking about the following options:
>
> * radiotimes xmltv feed. I use this for all my other channels, but it
> doesn't appear to carry data for the radio channels based on
> tv_grab_uk_rt --list-channels | grep -i radio
> * bleb xmltv feed. This appears to have data for the radio channels,
> but I'm not sure how Myth would like using two xmltv grabbers. It
> doesn't have listings for all the channels and the listings seem to be
> lower quality on average so I wouldn't want to move all my channels to
> this feed.
> * Now and Next EIT. Probably the easiest option, and I guess it would
> catch what I wanted most of the time.
> * Freesat EPG. Patch-time! Would rather avoid this, merely because it
> is the most invasive, but would be prepared to do it if no other good
> option presented itself.
>

Unfortunately it looks like you'll be stuck with EIT. I've used EIT
for my listings on other sources, and as mentioned about RT is useless
and bleb is unreliable...


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