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Any alternative to Atlas Metabroadcast for UK EPG?

Any alternative to Atlas Metabroadcast for UK EPG?
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#11
2016-05-11, 11:37 AM
Here's what some of the data looks like; this is a program that's being broadcast on "Dave"

Code:
{
    "programID": "EP012616430181",
    "resourceID": "189669",
    "titles": [
        {
            "title120": "Top Gear"
        }
    ],
    "descriptions": {
        "description100": [
            {
                "descriptionLanguage": "en-GB",
                "description": "Richard attacks the test track in a remarkable concept car from Mazda, and Jay Kay guest stars."
            }
        ],
        "description1000": [
            {
                "descriptionLanguage": "en-GB",
                "description": "Jeremy, Richard and James take on their rivals from the German equivalent of \"Top Gear\" and, in doing so, face their toughest challenge yet - not mentioning the war. Plus, James drives some exceedingly strange Japanese sports people in an equally strange Japanese car and Richard attacks the test track in a remarkable concept car from Mazda."
            }
        ]
    },
    "originalAirDate": "2008-07-27",
    "genres": [
        "Auto",
        "Entertainment"
    ],
    "metadata": [
        {
            "Gracenote": {
                "season": 11,
                "episode": 6
            }
        }
    ],
    "contentRating": [
        {
            "body": "Australian Classification Board",
            "code": "PG"
        },
        {
            "body": "USA Parental Rating",
            "code": "TVPG"
        }
    ],
    "cast": [
        {
            "billingOrder": "01",
            "role": "Guest Star",
            "nameId": "79008",
            "personId": "79008",
            "name": "Jay Kay"
        },
        {
            "billingOrder": "02",
            "role": "Host",
            "nameId": "554977",
            "personId": "533947",
            "name": "Jeremy Clarkson"
        },
        {
            "billingOrder": "03",
            "role": "Host",
            "nameId": "554978",
            "personId": "533948",
            "name": "Richard Hammond"
        },
        {
            "billingOrder": "04",
            "role": "Host",
            "nameId": "406324",
            "personId": "397449",
            "name": "James May"
        },
        {
            "billingOrder": "05",
            "role": "Guest Star",
            "nameId": "884435",
            "personId": "618541",
            "name": "The Stig"
        }
    ],
    "crew": [
        {
            "billingOrder": "01",
            "role": "Director",
            "nameId": "613403",
            "personId": "588873",
            "name": "Brian Klein"
        },
        {
            "billingOrder": "02",
            "role": "Executive Producer",
            "nameId": "613404",
            "personId": "588874",
            "name": "Andy Wilman"
        }
    ],
    "entityType": "Episode",
    "showType": "Series",
    "hasImageArtwork": true,
    "md5": "0CPoFeKFw3HSA3gTXjrgeg"
}
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#12
2016-05-11, 12:36 PM
fetfer Wrote:Many thanks for the review Dave, qq though does the data include Series information? This is what is important to me. [...]

Hi Fetfer;

Others have provided a sample of SD XML for the UK. I can confirm after letting this run overnight and looking at the EPG that results:

* The EPG from SD is pretty good for the UK
* The descriptions are perhaps a little shorter but actually fit better in the windows of NPVR and Kodi so no real loss
* Series and episode numbers are there...
* NPVR is using the series and episode numbers properly (with the requisite options ticked)
* The episode numbers are making it through to Kodi and seasons are being gathered as I would expect
* The naming convention within a season seems to have changed a bit on some programmes
* Programmes that I would expect to have season/episode do
* Some more challenging ones, like "Loose Women" don't have season/episode (that I can see)
* "Horizon" aired last night and that seemed to work OK - it has some of the most challenging series numbering going - lots of specials, more than 50 seasons so far and so on.
* "Homes Under The Hammer" (again for Mrs. Slee) worked quite well - todays episodes got labelled as in s17 (on Really) and s19 (BBC1)

So I'm quite happy. I do expect some teething problems, but so far, so good...
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#13
2016-05-11, 12:39 PM
rkulagow many thanks, I can see the Season and episode data in there
"Gracenote": {
"season": 11,
"episode": 6
}
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#14
2016-05-11, 12:55 PM
martint123 Wrote:Thanks for that quick review Dave, I've got a bit of a mix as well - dvb-s(x2), dvb-s2, dvb-t(x2), dvb-t2 and analogue STB input from Sly, so I guess I will be tied up doing some tweaking when I change, probably to SD as well.
I may have a further look at crossepg when time permits as it seems to extract the epg data from the broadcast sky epg data....

For your setup, going the SD route is probably cleanest. Take a trial account with SD (no charge), backup your NPVR config, choose line-ups that match each of your types of hardware and try an NPVR bulk-map. One tip - I organised the channels on my tuners so that they followed the Freeview order and in-filled the additional services from Freesat above the Freeview channels. This took a bit of work because my primary recordings come from Freesat (long story but summarised: garbled first few frames in .TS files from some channels with dodgy reception on DVB-T and no such problems with DVB-S) - so set your SD line-ups in the same order as you set your channel numbers - if your primary chanel numbering system is Freeview (like me) then set the SD line-up for freeview as the first you select, then add Freesat and finally any other line-ups. That way the auto-map function in NPVR seems to work best (results of a few hours of experiment and a bit of cursing!)

Apologies if I'm sounding like an evangelist for SD, but it solved my problems very affordably. I retired my evil kludge scripting of XMLTV last night; I could see how I could make it work and keep Atlas happy, but all the corner cases and bugs that could occur would have taken lots of chasing down. I'll invest that time now in trying to make a VBox (with DVB-S and DVB-T) try to behave itself. That's been a long term frustrating project that has been on the shelf for a while now. I nearly had the VBox working acceptably with NPVR the last time and the manufacturers have issued new firmware that might make it work better now...
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#15
2016-05-11, 01:45 PM
daveslee Wrote:Others have provided a sample of SD XML for the UK. I can confirm after letting this run overnight and looking at the EPG that results:

The data that I pasted is from our JSON service; the XML service which we provide is only for US and Canada.

But I'm happy to hear that everything is working well.
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#16
2016-05-11, 01:52 PM
Signed up for the trial, backed up my database and went to work.

I went for the English BSB lineup. My existing tuner channels use the sky channel numbers as this includes all the freeview and freesat channels (mostly!).
Half way through manual mapping (bulk didn't seem to work updating from old xmltv maps) I stumbled upon a problem that made life a bit difficult - BSB/Sky have two channel numbering schemes dependant on how much you subscribe where SD and HD channels are in different places. I guess this has little effect on the EPG as displayed, but certainly stops and auto mapping. Anyway, it didn't take long to do.

All I have to do now is figure out how to get episode/series visible somewhere and find where Discovery Science has disappeared to.
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#17
2016-05-11, 04:45 PM
martint123 Wrote:[...] All I have to do now is figure out how to get episode/series visible somewhere [...]

The easiest place I have found to get series/episode is to use the "TV Listings" and "TV Recordings" plugins for NPVR and turn off the standard versions. This adds much more information to the EPG grid and in the timers section so you can see exactly which S/E are recording next, have recorded or are in conflict. If you are using Kodi then S/E tagged files find their way into "TV Shows" and are allocated to virtual folders for each season. I find Kodi needs its database manually prodded to update from time to time but at least its on the menu at the left whenever you need it. I copy files across to a couple of WD Live boxes for watching around the house and the WD Live update process seems to happily agree with the S/E data coming in for the "major" programmes so all is well.

Since I'm running Kodi on PCs, I'm beginning to think that I can live without that layer of complexity and just use more copies of NPVR on its own in "slave" mode. Think I'll try that this weekend and see if Mrs. Slee can cope with ANOTHER change of user interface. She was really happy with Microsoft Media Centre (alas no more).
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#18
2016-05-11, 04:50 PM
Is the issue with Season/Episode within the native NextPVR client? Or in some other application?
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#19
2016-05-11, 07:56 PM
rkulagow Wrote:Is the issue with Season/Episode within the native NextPVR client? Or in some other application?
He's just saying the alternate 'TV Listings' and 'TV Recordings' plugins show the season/episode info a few more places than the default screens. The default screens also show this info, but in different places.

daveslee Wrote:If you are using Kodi then S/E tagged files find their way into "TV Shows" and are allocated to virtual folders for each season.
FYI - this isn't specific bit isn't related to the 'TV Listings' and 'TV Recordings' plugins. You'll find the filenames are exactly the same when recording from the built in guide/recording screens (since it's the recording service which ultimately decides on file names etc).
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#20
2016-05-12, 03:37 PM
Signed up for a trial but I'm not getting great series/episode number data for some things especially daily soaps/shows, for instance Neighbours (C5), Home and Away (C5), Eastenders (BBC1), Escape to the Country (BBC1), Flog IT! (BBC2), Antiques Road Trip (BBC2) are all blank.
Is this a general issue with these sorts of show, do they only have an episode number maybe, and maybe NPVR doesn't then import these numbers?
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