Missing BBC EPG listing

[jcjefferies]

Chris

welcome to the forum.

You can obtain your EPG over the air with a Freeview tuner but the quality of the data was (when I last used it a few years ago) rather iffy with very brief show descriptions and unreliable genres and season/episode and uniqueprogrammeID data. I think the deal breaker may also have been that the EPG data was encrypted on the HD channels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(...protection

On 14 June 2010, Ofcom agreed to allow the BBC to limit the full availability of its own and other broadcasters' high definition (HD) Freeview services to receivers that control how HD content can be used.[58] Ofcom concluded that the decision to accept the BBC's request will deliver net benefits to licence-holders by ensuring they have access to the widest possible range of HD television content on DTT.


Hence when I and others used to obtain our EPG from the internet in XML format and then import this into NPVR. Then Schedules Direct made their data available for UK users for a nominal annual free and this integrates very nicely with NPVR.

In the Freeview and Freesat EPG the HD entries are not encrypted but is compressed using Huffman encoding. If for any reason the HD entries are not being decoded in NextPVR you can always select the SD version.

For me the broadcast EPG data is adequate for my needs. I have been using EPG Collector for several years originally because then it was then the only way to extract the Unique Programme ID from the data stream to avoid duplicate recordings. It creates an XML file file which is imported into NextPVR. It is possible there is now a simpler way to avoid duplicate recordings but the database contains over a thousand "Recently Deleted" and "Existing" recordings!

Chris