UK listings and XMLTV Issues

[bgowland]

:eek:

Well that just taught me a lesson. I have all sorts of mechanisms for backing up my GB-PVR DB, config.xml, logs etc. but not one for keeping recent copys of my XMLTV file.

Anyone in the London & South East area have a recent copy of their XMLTV file they'd be willing to ZIP and attach (or e-mail me) -please? Pretty please???

Cheers,
Brian

[stu8080]

Luckily i did a backup last night, so i have a fortnights worth of listings!

Its only the 15 or so decent freeview channels... if you like to record the news or shopping channels you are out of luck.

Attached here:

[bgowland]

You are a Gentleman and a Scholar.

It looks to be pretty much the same set of channels I download. I'll need to tweak the 'channel id' elements but that'll only take 5 minutes of 'Find/Replace'. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Brian

[martint123]

Has anyone a suggestion for a command line (as in batch or cmd) email program that can send attachments. I have in mind emailing my exports xml file along with the xmltv file to gmail. I'd flag them as spam on gmail so they get deleted after 30 days.

Wishlist - some verification of EPG data files for the gbpvr update - especially when the 'empty epg' option is set. Maybe don't empty if the data file is less than xxx kb.

Martin

[gEd]

email sent

[edit]: oops - too late - sorry

[bgowland]

[edit]: oops - too late - sorry

Thanks for the thought anyway - very kind.

http://www.radiotimes.com is still down as I type this. You'd kinda think they'd have employed professionals to do whatever it is they're doing to their system.

Cheers,
Brian

[martint123]

I hear thoughts of a possibility of them charging for their data. :mad:

[sub]

How many of the freeview channels dont carry DVB EPG data?

[McBainUK]

None that I know of.

[sub]

So if they did start charging, there is no reason to not shift over to the DVB EPG? It might take a bit of tweaking to get it working smoothly with ITV and a couple of other problem channels, but at least you have the option.