Bug? Guide - EPG Sources - DVB/ATSC EPG Setup - Sec per frequency

[Mr Whippy]

To be fair I've not tried it yet.


However I do believe that the EPG for Freesat (UK) does need to scan for longer... it appears to pick up a lot of the data early in the first 20s of the 60s scan... but it feels a lot like it then picks up small missing pieces after that.

I've no idea on the frequency bandwidth that is used for the EPG data, but most frequencies with channels and EPG scan 60s for about 5 channels or so. The Freesat (UK) frequency scans 60s for about 300 channels.

I'd happily leave the Freesat (UK) frequency running for 5 minutes if I knew it'd get more complete coverage, but it doesn't seem like I can easily run it for that long... unless hammering the 'update EPG' button after it's finished each scan is the equivalent of that, but I'm not keen on that as my other EPG entries would spend ages updating too.



I quite like the Schedules Direct approach. But given some NextPVR GUI omissions/inconsistencies, the Freesat (UK) data is actually nicer because it adds in the year and rating meta-data... while in Schedules Direct, that data is missing from the description, and the NPVR GUI isn't showing those custom meta-data fields in all players (ie, Apple TV), even the meta-data grabs are often out, so you can end up recording entirely the wrong thing haha.

Also, after lots of recording over Christmas and the UK government doing lots of reporting for the pandemic response updates, I noticed lots of things changing and missing the start/end of some recordings (despite 6 minute overlaps set)
I have this feeling Freesat (UK) EPG data checked more often would probably make sure these schedule changes are covered better.


Still just the issue of remapping C4 > C4HD though... oddly you can remap any old channel with any old EPG data if you use Schedules Direct... but no remapping possible with the OTA EPG data.

[ElihuRozen]

I quite like the Schedules Direct approach. But given some NextPVR GUI omissions/inconsistencies, the Freesat (UK) data is actually nicer because it adds in the year and rating meta-data... while in Schedules Direct, that data is missing from the description, and the NPVR GUI isn't showing those custom meta-data fields in all players (ie, Apple TV), even the meta-data grabs are often out, so you can end up recording entirely the wrong thing haha.

If this were the only reason you weren't using SchedulesDirect, I wrote a line of SQL that I call from my PostUpdateEPG.bat that finds all movies and adds the year from the original_air_date and the star_rating converted to a string at the beginning of the description.  So the Description starts with something like this: "(2004) **+ Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is dispatched to "

Line from PostUpdateEPG.bat:

Code:

scripts\sqlite3.exe -init "insertStars.sql" "npvr.db3" ".quit" >>%LOGFILE%  2>&1

insertStars.sql:

Code:

update epg_event
      set description =  '('||strftime('%Y', epg_event.original_air_date)||') '||substr('****+',- round(epg_event.star_rating + '0.5'),round(epg_event.star_rating))||' '||description
where epg_event.genres like '%Movie%' and epg_event.description not like '(%';