[mythtv-users] New Upnp Channel Changer Script (Dish VIP 211 users definitely read)

[Dan Wilga]

On 2/25/15 11:49 AM, Martin Compton wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 09:47 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> On 2/25/15 10:33 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Dan Wilga 
>>> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu 
>>> <mailto:mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hm. I actually wrote a script to scrape the web page listing the
>>>     channels offered for free, and send me an email when it changes.
>>>     If only that page's format was structured strictly enough that I
>>>     could pull out the list of channels and dates I could show/hide
>>>     the channels as needed. Instead, that page is obviously
>>>     maintained by a human who changes the structure frequently.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.freepreview.tv/
>> Thanks for pointing me to that site, but it's still not structured 
>> data. Not only that, it seems to be crowdsourced, so it's likely to 
>> be more out-of-date than Dish's site.
>>
>> I think I need to wait until a channel I don't subscribe to is being 
>> offered for free and see if the output from the receiver's 
>> AuthChannels.xml feed changes. If so, I could periodically parse that 
>> file and change the available channel list in Myth. (Thanks, Jon H., 
>> for figuring out that this feed exists.)
> I can confirm that with the ViP222k, the "AuthChannels.xml" list 
> changes to reflect free previews, including movie channels.
>
> The channels are made available on the high 9200+ channel numbers.
Perhaps this question is for Jon:  Do we know if the data fetched by 
http://[IP-ADDRESS]:49200/AuthChannels.xml is always up to date, or does 
the SOAP call in vip211-channellist need to be done first? If I can omit 
that step, all the better.
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