MediaHighWay EPG

This is a program to extract proprietary EPG Data sent by the Canal+ group (Mediahighway receivers) and parse it into a VDR compatible format. It can be used to get a 7-days EPG for Canal Satellite (France), Cyfra+ (Poland), Canal Digitaal Satelliet (Netherlands), Digital+ (Spain) and Sky Italia.

Hardware requirements

• Driver API 3

Installation

wget http://jrepetto.free.fr/mhwepg-0.4.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mhwepg-0.4.3.tar.gz
cd mhwepg-0.4.3
make

Configuration

Is necesary to create a channels.conf file

DIGITAL+:10847:v:0:22000:160:80:0:0:0
CSN EPG:12363:v:0:27500:160:80:0:0:0
CYFRA EPG:10719:v:1:27500:160:80:0:0:0
CD EPG:12515:h:0:22000:160:80:0:0:0
SKY ITALIA EPG:11881:v:1:27500:160:80:0:0:0

Execute

First tunne the adapter to a especific channel:

szap -a 6 -c channels.conf "DIGITAL+"

Execute the program:

./mhwepg -s S19.2E -a 6 -o output.dat

Parameters

usage: mhwepg [options]
         get MediaHighway EPG data
     -a number : use given adapter (default 0)
     -d number : use given demux (default 0)
     -s string : source (such as S19.2E)
     -e string : list of equivalent channels
     -t number : local time offset (in seconds)
     -l        : send the channels list to stderr
     -o string : output to file <string> (default stdout)

Output

This is VDR format output, it my be fixed to get XMLTV format output:

Example:

C S19.2E-1-1074-8366 TF1
E 62 1295285100 2400 90
T UNE FAMILLE EN OR
S JEU - 40'
D Jeu. Présenté par Christophe Dechavanne.|Le principe d'«Une famille
en or» est|très simple : deux familles s'affrontent|en quatre manches
sur des questions de|la vie quotidienne. La meilleure|décrochera une
place en finale.
e

Tests

CSN EPG

On 15 january 2011

$ mhwepg -s S19.2E -a 6 -o output.dat
UTC Offset = 0
Country = FRA, Region = 0
Local Time Offset = 3600
Next Local Time Offset = 7200
Date of change = 27/03/2011
Reading titles ...
Reading summaries ...
Nb of summaries : 8144
Nb of titles : 6173
Writing EPG data to file ...
Nb of channels = 90

CD EPG

On 15 january 2011

$ mhwepg -s S19.2E -a 6 -o output.dat
UTC Offset = 0
Country = NLD, Region = 0
Local Time Offset = 3600
Next Local Time Offset = 7200
Date of change = 27/03/2011
Reading titles ...
Reading summaries ...
Nb of summaries : 2868
Nb of titles : 1890
Writing EPG data to file ...
Nb of channels = 46

SKY ITALIA EPG

On 15 january 2011

$ mhwepg -s S19.2E -a 6 -o output.dat
UTC Offset = 0
Country = FRA, Region = 0
Local Time Offset = 3600
Next Local Time Offset = 7200
Date of change = 27/03/2011
Error while reading themes
:: Connection timed out

DIGITAL+ Spain

On 15 january 2011

$ mhwepg -s S19.2E -a 6 -o output.dat
UTC Offset = 0
Country = ESP, Region = 1
Local Time Offset = 7200
Next Local Time Offset = 3600
Date of change = 31/10/2010
Error while reading themes
:: Connection timed out

To Do List

• Parse output data from VDR format to XMLTV format
• Fix Digital+ (spain)
• Add results on the wiki

Links

MediaHighWay EPG homepage: http://jrepetto.free.fr