[mythtv-users] How does XMLTV UK Atlas Grabber Compare To UK Radio Times Grabber / Handle Part Time Freeview Channels?

[Mike Bibbings]

On 25/07/14 10:05, Andre Newman wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2014, at 09:17, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>
>> On 25/07/2014 08:02, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>>> On 25/07/14 06:28, Nigel Jewell wrote:
>>>> On 23/07/2014 20:23, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>>>>> I have been using the Atlas grabber since September last year with no
>>>>> problems. It works fine for part time channels, +1 channels.
>>>>>
>>>> What are the benefits to moving to it?
>>>>
>>>> Nige.
>>>>
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>>> Basically Atlas provides more channels and also includes Radio channel data.
>>>
>>> The Radio Times (RT) grabber will no longer work after January 2015 see
>>>
>>> http://metabroadcast.com/blog/atlas-deer-goes-out-in-the-wild
>>>
>>> (near bottom of  the blog)
>> Can you use the atlas grabber as a simple swap-in replacement for the
>> rt one, or are there more config changes required?
> I switched about a year ago, there were a couple of channels I wanted that RT didn’t provide. The channel IDs are completely different, as I have a hand built .xmltv file this was a fair bit of tinkering.
>
> eg:
> channel=hd.filmfour.channel4.com
> becomes:
> channel=cbhn
>
> If you are able to use the automatically built .xmltv file then there are translations from the old xmltv IDs to the new ones in the Altas grabber and maybe that is fairly “drop in”.
>
> I don’t use it any more as I now only receive channels that have EIT and that works so much better for me.
>
> Andre
>
>> Paul.
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The information from Andre was correct at that time.

However things have moved on since then, as there is now automatic 
mapping of the Atlas ids to the style used in the RT grabber.

Current situation is as follows (I have just tried out the latest on my 
mythtv test system running v0.27.3-109-g0dd5ab3)

1. You need xmltv version 0.5.65 installed (current 14.04 ubuntu uses 
0.5.63 - no atlas grabber)
2. You need Atlas API key from Metabroadcast
      https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/atlasapi/szyMZBD8KWc

Mike


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