[mythtv-users] Sky integration

Rick Smith rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 22 23:41:02 UTC 2006


Stefan Haflidason wrote:

> On 3/22/06, *Richard Smith* <rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:rick_t_smith at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Stefan Haflidason wrote:
>
>     > On 3/22/06, *Stefan Haflidason* <styrmis at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com>
>     > <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com <mailto:styrmis at googlemail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 3/22/06, *Dave* < lists at netsalve.com
>     <mailto:lists at netsalve.com>
>     >     <mailto:lists at netsalve.com <mailto:lists at netsalve.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:00, Stefan Haflidason wrote:
>     >> How happy are those of you who record Sky programs with MythTV?
>     >>
>     >> I don't have a Sky box (but I need to install with a Sky box this
>     >     weekend).
>     >> I've been looking at setting up the channels, and I am already
>     >     resigned to
>     >> the fact that the configuration must be done in a rather
>     >     laborious way.
>     >>
>     >> As a test, I just tried adding BBC1, BBC2 and E4, using the rt
>     xmltv
>     >> grabber. E4 was skipped as the id wasn't correct, and the BBC
>     >     channels were
>     >> grabbed correctly.
>     >>
>     >> mythfilldatabase ran and populated correctly as far as I can see.
>     >>
>     >> The current release of xmltv is 0.5.42 and brings with it an
>     >     update to the
>     >> rt channel ids. I updated to this version, but was met with a
>     >     different
>     >> manner (perhaps unacceptable) of configuration. In the
>     >     configuration (in
>     >> the console, started from mythtv-setup) I was asked to say yes or
>     >     no to
>     >> each channel the grabber new about. This is not as friendly as
>     >     the search
>     >> interface of the previous versions.
>     >>
>     >> So for the moment I have downgraded. For the others who are
>     trying to
>     >> record Sky, what have your solutions been? As far as I can tell
>     >     all that
>     >> needs changing are the channel ids that xmltv uses.
>     >>
>     >> My questions:
>     >>
>     >> 1) How do other people cope with xmltv ids changing? Do you have
>     >     any tips
>     >> for how to set up the required Sky channels , based on your
>     >     experiences? I
>     >> have channel changing sorted (though untested) using a device
>     >     from Joseph
>     >> Heenan, but no channels.
>     >>
>     >> 2) I think I may try and just edit the xmltv config file created
>     >     in the
>     >> .mythtv directory directly and avoid the configuration utility.
>     >     Is this
>     >> acceptable or does the utility do something else?
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >>
>     >> Stefan.
>     >>
>     >> P.S. I would normally just experiment, but I'm in the unfortunate
>     >     position
>     >> of needing to install this system in ~1 day. There is very
>     little to
>     >> configure, but the bit that's left is rather crucial so I really
>     >     appreciate
>     >> your input.
>     >> **
>     >
>     >     The attached file Antenna.xmltv contains most of the Sky
>     Channels
>     >     - hope it
>     >     helps.
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >     Dave
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     >
>     >     Dave,
>     >
>     >     Thanks for the list. I just checked the e4 id in it and it's the
>     >     id which was skipped when grabbing channels for being
>     incorrect.
>     >
>     >     I'll have to try and find out where to get the new ids as they
>     >     come out. I'd be happy to maintain such a list for those of
>     us in
>     >     the UK. Perhaps it is in the xmltv source?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I suppose one way is to update the relevant files (for the grabber
>     > only) from CVS:
>     > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/
>     <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/>
>     >
>     > Though I would like to know where the people who update the list
>     found
>     > there get their information.
>     >
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>     I'm running very happily but I confess that I skipped the channel
>     grabbing.  I really don't want to bother with all the sky channels so
>     grabbed a few and did the rest manually ( but I'm pretty happy with
>     using SQL).  It didn't take long and works a treat.
>
>     I use it in conjunction with the sky channel changer and it works just
>     fine (apart from my daughter changing the channel to watch Friends or
>     'whatever' in the middle of the Test Match.....
>
>     Rick
>
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> That's somewhat reassuring, thanks Rick. My concern is that although 
> e4.channel4.com <http://e4.channel4.com> appears in all the 
> configurations I've seen, mythfilldatabase refuses to acknowledge it 
> as valid and skips it.
>
> My brother isn't going to miss E4 necessarily, but if it happens with 
> other channels I'm not sure what the manual workaround is. My only 
> idea is to add it to the mythconverg database manually and see what 
> happens. Is that what other people do?
>
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Oh, and my channel entry for E4 (freeview; DVB remember) is
mysql> select * from channel where name regexp "E4";
+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
| chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name | icon | 
finetune | videofilters | xmltvid         | recpriority | contrast | 
brightness | colour | hue   | tvformat | commfree | visible | 
outputfilters | useonairguide | mplexid | serviceid | atscsrcid |
+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
|   3041 | 14      |        |        3 | E4       | E4   | none |        
0 |              | e4.channel4.com |           0 |    32768 |      32768 
|  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               
|             1 |       2 |      8448 |         0 |
+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------+------+----------+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+
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Rick

	
	
		
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