[mythtv-users] New Freeview EPG option

[Nick Rout]

I'm sorry this relates to New Zealand and was supposed to go to our
local mailing list!

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am starting a new thread about this.
>
> Many of you will be aware that Sky has issued C&D letters to a number
> of people that have been providing EPG info for Sky and Freeview
> channels. The "take downs" that have resulted have also inconvenienced
> Freeview users.
>
> The good news for freeview users is that there is a new listing source
> at http://nzepg.org/ - I picked this up from a thread at geekzone.
> This seems to be provided by some kind soul, who probably wishes to
> remain nameless for obvious reasons (even though IMHO they are not
> breaking any law, and provide no access to any Sky data anyway. By the
> way that's not legal advice either...).
>
> The other good news is that you can still use tv_grab_nz-py by
> updating the download url to this new source. To change the url in
> your existing script just look at the following lines from my amended
> script:
>
> SOURCES = (
> #       'http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/listings-all.xml.gz',
>        'http://nzepg.org/freeview.xml.gz',
> )
>
> You'll see I commented out the old line and inserted the new url.
>
> This listing only contains freeview channel data, and if your legacy
> setup refers to, eg tv3.sky.co.nz you'll have to:
>
> (a) change that to tv3.freeviewnz.tv - best place to do this is in
> mythweb (settings|tv|channel info)
>
> (b) change the setting in ~mythtv/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv (where mythtv
> is the user running the backend and Freeview is your source name.) The
> file is in the format:
>
> channel=tv3-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tv3.freeviewnz.tv
> channel!ctv3.sky.co.nz
> channel!tv3.sky.co.nz
> ...etc
>
> Where the ! separator means we don't use that channel and the = means
> the opposite. In fact most of the sky.co.nz lines in that file will
> now be redundant, I had the sky listings for legacy reasons and I have
> been meaning to set them to the freeview ones for a while anyway.
>
> For people using Sky via a STB, you may have to get access to the Sky
> EIT data via, eg, epgsnoop.
>