[mythtv-users] UK: managing Freeview and Freesat

[Paul]

Me too, me too.

Glad to donate beer tokens or toilet paper :-)

Paul

On 3 May 2011, at 22:04, Mark Parsons wrote:

> 
> On 6 Apr 2011, at 14:42, Nick Morrott wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Below is what I posted to the xmltv-dev list in March - the lack of a
>> functioning bathroom at present has temporarily stopped my work on
>> this in the past few weeks,
> 
> <cue disturbing mental image of Nick only being able work on Myth stuff whilst sitting on the bog>
> 
>> but I will pick it up again in the next
>> week. My current work would seem to do almost everything everyone in
>> the thread is after on a per-platform and per-postcode basis. It is
>> yet to renumber one platform lineups to that of another (to allow easy
>> mixing of multiple platforms on a single system), and leans toward
>> aiding XMLTV configurations (it is part of the XMLTV lineups work),
>> but it also allows matching of digital services by way of service ID.
>> 
>> The overall idea for the lineups work is to allow configuration of
>> XMLTV grabbers directly in MythTV via a series of simple
>> question/answers to determine location, TV services and packages
>> subscribed to.
>> 
>> ----
> 
> 
> Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! This has been bugging me for ages, and after a recent delete-all-tuners-and-start-again, I've been mulling over ways to fudge this for my setup (DVB-S, DVB-S2 and dual DVB-T). I'd almost started building clone tables based on the channel lists I can see on my Foxsat HDR Freesat box, and on my Freeview TVs so that every time I rescan I can use SQL to match up the channels or something. Glad that I decided to poke around to see whether anyone else had solved the problem! :)
> 
> To be honest, I was blown away with how easy (and quick!) it is to scan for satellite channels using the Humax - anything that can come anywhere closer to that kind of slickness (compared to where we are today) would be very welcome. Obviously all this work being discussed here doesn't get around the painful channel-scanning process, but ending up with a sensibly-ordered, consistently-named cross-source channel line up would be a *huge* step in the right direction.
> 
> My coding skills are virtually negligible, and my SQL isn't anything to shout about. My DIY is a bit better, although I've not done any bathroom stuff before, so perhaps I can't safely help there either :p  Is there a 'Nick's Beer Fund' that I could contribute to which will help you along and demonstrate our support?
> 
> Fingers crossed...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark P.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users