Is it possible?

Darx-starz · 2005-03-28, 10:27 AM

To write a bit of code that scans the EPG and replaces the TBA's in the DB with the updated data?

***sub*** · 2005-03-28, 04:21 PM

One of you UK guys that uses this XMLTV grabber should modify it so that it doesnt included these listings.

bgowland · 2005-03-28, 04:49 PM

Darx-starz Wrote:To write a bit of code that scans the EPG and replaces the TBA's in the DB with the updated data?

Funnily enough I've just been cooking up a plan to do this but don't hold your breathe - my rate of coding these days isn't anywhere near that of sub and some of the plugin developers but I thought I might make a start today.

BTW - if you just want to clear out TBA entries and not ghost schedules, then -OnlyEmptyEPG and -OnlyUpdateEPG works for me at the commandline.

bgowland · 2005-03-28, 04:53 PM

sub Wrote:One of you UK guys that uses this XMLTV grabber should modify it so that it doesnt included these listings.

sub - what is the 'lock' status of the gbpvr.mdb when the recording service is running? I still haven't got my head around .NET's approach to things and I was thinking of a VB6 command-line utility which uses ADO to directly access the DB.

***sub*** · 2005-03-28, 04:55 PM

You should be able to connect to it and execute SQL to do this.

Darx-starz · 2005-03-28, 05:02 PM

bgowland Wrote:BTW - if you just want to clear out TBA entries and not ghost schedules, then -OnlyEmptyEPG and -OnlyUpdateEPG works for me at the commandline.

Cheers I will try that. What do you mean by "Ghost" entries?

Darx-starz · 2005-03-28, 05:10 PM

OK Just tried it and it works :-) Happy bunny now. Thanks bgowland.

I have this scheduled as grabepg.bat. It runs about 6PM:
##### Begin ######
ECHO "grabing epg" > epggrab.txt
date /t >> epggrab.txt
time /t >> epggrab.txt
gbpvr.exe -OnlyEmptyEPG
gbpvr.exe -OnlyUpdateEPG
#### END ######

bgowland · 2005-03-28, 05:19 PM

Darx-starz Wrote:Cheers I will try that. What do you mean by "Ghost" entries?

Sorta my term for when a programme gets rescheduled by the TV company (say to start 15mins later for example), the gbpvr scheduler picks it up as a new instance of a programme if you have it scheduled as Season record but the old scheduled/pending recording stays in the database. I regularly step through my Pending recordings to find these and clean them out by hand.