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Television in the UK comes in a few flavours: | Television in the UK comes in a few flavours: | ||
* Analog Broadcast (BBC1,2,ITV,C4 and Channel 5) - being phased out by 2012, earlier in some areas. | * Analog Broadcast (BBC1,2,ITV,C4 and Channel 5) - being phased out by 2012, earlier in some areas. | ||
| − | * Digital Broadcast (Freeview and...) | + | * [[DVB|Digital Broadcast]] (Freeview and...) |
* [[UK Sky Satellite|Sky Satellite]] | * [[UK Sky Satellite|Sky Satellite]] | ||
* Telewest Cable | * Telewest Cable | ||
* NTL Cable | * NTL Cable | ||
| − | UK listings are best served by using the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber ([[Uk_xmltv]]), which uses a dedicated xmltv feed on the Radio Times website | + | UK listings are best served by using the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber ([[Uk_xmltv]]), which uses a dedicated xmltv feed on the Radio Times website - or, if you're a Digital ([[DVB]]) user, directly from the signal using the in-built EIT data collection. |
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| + | Digitals users might be interested in the [[DVBTUKHowTo]]. | ||
In either case, Digital Spy provide lots of useful UK TV info: | In either case, Digital Spy provide lots of useful UK TV info: | ||
Revision as of 12:48, 21 August 2006
Television in the UK comes in a few flavours:
- Analog Broadcast (BBC1,2,ITV,C4 and Channel 5) - being phased out by 2012, earlier in some areas.
- Digital Broadcast (Freeview and...)
- Sky Satellite
- Telewest Cable
- NTL Cable
UK listings are best served by using the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber (Uk_xmltv), which uses a dedicated xmltv feed on the Radio Times website - or, if you're a Digital (DVB) user, directly from the signal using the in-built EIT data collection.
Digitals users might be interested in the DVBTUKHowTo.
In either case, Digital Spy provide lots of useful UK TV info:
For sky or NTL users here is a link to details of setting up xmltv in the UK:
For remote controlling a Sky or Sky+ box, one option is:
Or a related (prebuilt) system can be bought here:
Another option is:
infrared option
There is also a script to update the sky frequency numbers afer the recent (28th Jan 2006) change.
For NTL I use This page for the channel numbers:
[1]
This page for the cable box control:
[2]
And this file for the ledxmitd.conf
- this config file was automatically generated
- using lirc-0.6.3pre4(sir) on Wed Feb 14 04:40:48 2001
- contributed by John G Ineson
- brand: Pace
- model: DI4001N
- supported devices: DI4001N (NTL UK Digital Cable box)
begin remote
name DI4001N
bits 13
flags RC5|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100
one 887 898
zero 887 898
plead 875
gap 114458
toggle_bit 2
begin codes
1 0x0000000000001281
2 0x0000000000001282
3 0x0000000000001283
4 0x0000000000001284
5 0x0000000000001285
6 0x0000000000001286
7 0x0000000000001287
8 0x0000000000001288
9 0x0000000000001289
0 0x0000000000001280
Mute 0x0000000000000286
Help 0x000000000000128F
Red 0x00000000000002AB
Green 0x00000000000002AC
Yellow 0x00000000000002AD
Blue 0x00000000000002AE
Left 0x0000000000000295
Right 0x0000000000000296
Up 0x0000000000000290
Down 0x0000000000000291
Select 0x0000000000000297
Guide 0x000000000000028F
Menu 0x00000000000002AA
Back 0x00000000000012A8
Browse 0x00000000000012AF
Volume+ 0x0000000000001290
Volume- 0x0000000000001291
Channel- 0x00000000000012A1
Channel+ 0x00000000000012A0
Page_Up 0x000000000000128A
Page_Down 0x000000000000128B
Email 0x00000000000002B0
Internet 0x00000000000002AF
Audio 0x0000000000000292
On_Demand 0x00000000000002B1
TV 0x0000000000000293
Interactive 0x00000000000002A1
Standby 0x000000000000128C
end codes
end remote
