I-xmltv updated for YahooXMLTv (adds a new show marker and more)

[whurlston]

How about a switch to turn off this behavior? Some of us like "Title, The", and there's too many imbedded instances of "Title, The" to change...yeah, I know, you can't please everyone...

Jim will probably remove it in the next update since you can now control that behavior in YahooXMLTv.

[Jim_]

Sorry about the slow update
I’m not going to have much time available until later next week but I’ve removed that part of the code and uploaded the update to post #1.

This zip does not include an UpdateEPG.bat.
After you verify your UpdateEPG.bat is working properly and the listing are in the format you want.
Copy the contents of the zip to the same folder that contains your xmltv listings.
Add the I-xmltv commands (included in the readme) to your UpdateEPG.bat.
Be sure to change the path and filename (the first two lines) to point to the correct path and xmltv filename.

[mulletback]

Sorry about the slow update
I’m not going to have much time available until later next week but I’ve removed that part of the code and uploaded the update to post #1.

This zip does not include an UpdateEPG.bat.
After you verify your UpdateEPG.bat is working properly and the listing are in the format you want.
Copy the contents of the zip to the same folder that contains your xmltv listings.
Add the I-xmltv commands (included in the readme) to your UpdateEPG.bat.
Be sure to change the path and filename (the first two lines) to point to the correct path and xmltv filename.

Slow?!? Not by my reckoning...

That's the ticket, thanks much.

[zehd]

Hi Jim_... I'm trying to use this same script using the XML generated by whurlston's MceEpg2XmlTv. I assumed that the resulting xml is in the same format as his Yahoo grabber...

I'm getting this error in the log

Code:

.
29/07/2007 11:47:38.46
Enhancing EPG: TEMP-EPG.XML >> I-xmltv.XML
Error= 5  Error codes are located in ReadMe-NOW.txt
I-xmltv Y-wurlston (build 7/24/07)
Creating a custom search channel
Display Name=FIND,  Channel=1,  Entries=163 / 192 max.

I don't know where the ReadMeNow.txt is...

Is there a way that you could adjust your script to simply take an input XML filespec

Here's my mod to your batch file

*** 0008100-.xml is the xml file created from MceEpg2XmlTv

Code:

cd c:\windows\ehome
Copy 0008100-.xml Temp-EPG.xml

echo . >>I-xmltv.log
echo %Date% %Time% >>I-xmltv.log

I-xmltv Temp-EPG.xml /md/() /mr/{} /dd/() /df/Y-M-D /gd/1 /ni/* /tn/-7

REM Hawaii /tn/-10, Alaska /tn/-9, Pacific /tn/-8, Mountain /tn/-7, Central /tn/-6, Eastern /tn/-5
REM subtracting 2-hours (Central /tn/-8) will mark shows as "new" until 2AM the following day.

move I-xmltv.XML MCEXMLTv.xml

I-xmltv /CC

MOVE I-xmltv.XML FIND.xml

del Temp-EPG.xml

[Jim_]

Hi Jim_... I'm trying to use this same script using the XML generated by whurlston's MceEpg2XmlTv. I assumed that the resulting xml is in the same format as his Yahoo grabber...

I don't know where the ReadMeNow.txt is...

Is there a way that you could adjust your script to simply take an input XML filespec

Frank, this is not a generic “works with everything” utility.
One of the checks I-xmltv performs is to look for very specific input field wording & formatting (including leading spaces) to verify the information in the field has been tested and is usable.

The version posted in this thread was patched to work with the current version of YahooXMLTv.

The version on the wiki works with zap2it and the xmltv NA_DD grabber, it has the “Readme_now.txt” with the error codes. You’ll have lots of errors if you use either version with an unsupported grabber.

When I have time I plan on modifying a version for the MCE grabber and others, but the capture device I use with my development system conflicts with the device I need to install to use MCE.
Its easiest for me if I wait until I have more time and work with the final versions, that way I’ll only need to shut down my main GBPVR system and fight the driver issue one time.

[zehd]

Frank, this is not a generic “works with everything” utility.
One of the checks I-xmltv performs is to look for very specific input field wording & formatting (including leading spaces) to verify the information in the field has been tested and is usable.

The version posted in this thread was patched to work with the current version of YahooXMLTv.

The version on the wiki works with zap2it and the xmltv NA_DD grabber, it has the “Readme_now.txt” with the error codes. You’ll have lots of errors if you use either version with an unsupported grabber.

When I have time I plan on modifying a version for the MCE grabber and others, but the capture device I use with my development system conflicts with the device I need to install to use MCE.
Its easiest for me if I wait until I have more time and work with the final versions, that way I’ll only need to shut down my main GBPVR system and fight the driver issue one time.

For the time being, I'm able to use the wiki version quite well.. I just add these lines to my own UpdateEPG.bat ( not yours...)

Code:

echo Adding extra I-XMLTV data
echo . >>I-xmltv.log
echo %Date% %Time% >>I-xmltv.log

SET MVSwitches=/md/() /mr/[] /m#/[]
SET TVSwitches=/sx /oe /se/ - /dd/() /df/Y-M-D /gd/1 /ni/* /tn/-6

REM Hawaii /tn/-10, Alaska /tn/-9, Pacific /tn/-8, Mountain /tn/-7, Central /tn/-6, Eastern /tn/-5
REM subtracting 2-hours (Central /tn/-8) will mark shows as "new" until 2AM the following day.

REM NOTE! The examples for Timezones are off by an hour.  Possibily because of Daylight Savings Time

REM Copy {Outputfile from Mce05Epg2XmlTv}.xml to Temp-EPG.xml

Copy 0008100-.xml Temp-EPG.xml
I-xmltv Temp-EPG.xml %MVSwitches% %TVSwitches%
move I-xmltv.XML MCEXMLTv.xml

rem MCEXMLTV.xml is the final output file name that should be referenced in GB-PVR's Config...

I-xmltv /CC
MOVE I-xmltv.XML FIND.xml
del Temp-EPG.xml

[whurlston]

When I have time I plan on modifying a version for the MCE grabber and others, but the capture device I use with my development system conflicts with the device I need to install to use MCE.
Its easiest for me if I wait until I have more time and work with the final versions, that way I’ll only need to shut down my main GBPVR system and fight the driver issue one time.

No need Jim. I am outputting all the data contained in the MCE EPG. I believe your wiki version already works well with it as there is already someone else was already using the data with I-XMLTv and I think zehd got it to work. There is some extra data that is not in the XMLTV specifications that you may be able to make use of. I will send you a complete list in a couple of days. I plan on updating the Y! grabber to pull the extra data from the mlt (text) files so that you don't have to keep up with two vesions of I-XMLTv as well.

[EDIT] zehd beat me to the post.

[Jim_]

No need Jim. I am outputting all the data contained in the MCE EPG. I believe your wiki version already works well with it as there is already someone else was already using the data with I-XMLTv and I think zehd got it to work. There is some extra data that is not in the XMLTV specifications that you may be able to make use of. I will send you a complete list in a couple of days. I plan on updating the Y! grabber to pull the extra data from the mlt (text) files so that you don't have to keep up with two vesions of I-XMLTv as well.

[EDIT] zehd beat me to the post.

Thanks whurlston, that‘s awesome!

[valkokir]

Jim,

Thanks for the great program and it works as well as the zap2it version did. Are we safe at this point to start playing with the switches in the updateepg.bat to change date formats and such without getting a hand slapped

I took the liberty of pointing any users of the old zap2it thread over here in case they, like me, were subscribed to it waiting for more info on a new version.

I realize this is still over in the developer's forum but the zip file so far does not have the detailed instructions of the old version for formatting the data. Should we expect to see that info when it goes up on the Wiki or maybe the support forum?

Thanks again.

[mulletback]

Have I got this right: if a show has NO first air date data, it gets marked as an old show? It appears to behave this way - I recently observed a new episode of "The Closer" with no air date, and it was marked as old.

Also, gbpvr seems to view, for example, "The Closer" and "The Closer *" as two entirely different shows, so to get all episodes, all the time, you need to set up to record both titles. That has zero WAF here, so new show marker is off anyway. On the other hand, if you only want new episodes (or only old), it's very useful.

All these goodies are only as good as the guide data... :-\