[mythtv-users] Grab EPG from DVB to XML

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Josu,
>
> Friday, May 15, 2015, 8:51:19 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Thanks Nick!
>
>> I will try it.
>
>> Regards.
>
>> 2015-05-15 5:17 GMT+02:00 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> I have two mythtv backends configured with some USB DVB devices. The
>>>> problem is that sometimes I get kernel crash for the DVB USB module.
>>>>
>>>> I read that it will be good idea to not configure the tunners to
>>>> active EIT scan.
>>>>
>>>> I want to try to put a raspberrypi with a USB DVB adapter and grab all
>>>> EPG info and the store it as XML, then I will add this XML in the
>>>> backend.
>>>>
>>>> I try with XMLTV, but there is no sources for Spain.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone could help with this?
>>>>
>>>> Which tools need I use to get this information?
>>>>
>>>
>>> epgsnoop (google it, sorry i don't have a link)
>>> _______________________________________________
>
> Is there a proper source, a website or a json feed? I can easily add
> another source to my dutch grabber. It would take me a few days. The
> biggest thing is that on github the documentation is mainly in dutch.
> But in the configuration file it is in english. If there is such a
> source and you're interested? My Spanish though is almost nonexistent!
> So I might need some assistance on that part.
>

I have looked further, I don't use this myself, but the software I am
thinking of is

https://launchpad.net/epgsnoop

I am not sure though that there might be previous or other versions
that hadley drew on.

Hadley is very approachable.