Yahoo Go TV to XMLTV (via API)

[Jim_]

notice no CRLF at end of channels?

It's that way in the original xml so I left it alone with the last patch. This one moves the first listing to a new line even though it didnt cause any problems.

and man, that patch takes forever to run on my guide!

You just have too many listings.... I added a counter in this version so you can see how fast it actually processes each listing

also i would suggest replacing the " double quotes in the xml too..[they are in there quite often]

Let me know if gbpvr gives any errors importing the patched xml.

I'm not going to spend much more time with patches until the downloader is in its final form, but atleast this will give us a usable guide.
But I may make another standalone util that will let us customize the channel names. That should avoid the dupe name issue.

Jim

[proteus5]

The patch in post #44 has been updated to fix the timezone issue.
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=44

Jim,

I just tried your new patch for the time zone fix, and something broke, I cleared the EPG in GBPVR, and imported the new "fixed" one, and now I don't get any data at all. The grid is just blank.

Robert

[mark_t]

Jim, I get a good load now. THANKS!

[Jim_]

Jim,

I just tried your new patch for the time zone fix, and something broke, I cleared the EPG in GBPVR, and imported the new "fixed" one, and now I don't get any data at all. The grid is just blank.

Robert

Works here Robert,
update using gbpvr config then post the Config.exe-native.log from the gbpvr logs folder. If there's a problem with the file, the logs should show it. It could be a dup channel or some other problem my epg doesnt have, but that would need to be addressed elsewhere.

[Jim_]

Jim, I get a good load now. THANKS!

cool, glad it worked!

[jschoef]

I have tried both the patches and without the patch with comcast cable listing in area code 03110. Neither have worked for me. With the patch I just get the call letters (nbc, cbs) and no channel numbers or program data...it is just empty.

[Jim_]

I have tried both the patches and without the patch with comcast cable listing in area code 03110. Neither have worked for me. With the patch I just get the call letters (nbc, cbs) and no channel numbers or program data...it is just empty.

Ok, I'm back and here's what I found.
Everyone needs to download the patch from post 44 again, I posted the wrong build last time (loaded the wrong xml file when testing) and it had a problem.

Eeven with the new patch.exe build you are going to have problems with your listings.

I downloaded your listings, tried to update the epg, and found there was a dup channel in the xml file. this was the Config.exe-native.log error.

Code:

XMLTV: error reading xml: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '056'  Key being added: '056'

And this is the data in the xml that is causing it.

Code:

<channel id="056">
    <display-name lang="en">EWTN</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="056">
    <display-name lang="en">INSP</display-name>
</channel>

The indiviual listings aren't marked with the station id, only the channel number, so there isnt any way I can fix it by running a patch after the xml is downloaded.
-Oz- will need to add an option that allows the user to select only one of the dupe channels for download.
Or use a different station ID system or something like that.

[jschoef]

yup, I deleted the dup channel and i had listings after that...still no channel numbers though.

[proteus5]

Jim,

Boy did you confuse me!!!! I logged on, saw the post that you would like to see my logs, and while in the process of creating them I accidently deleted your patch program. So back to post #44 and downloaded it again, and ran it and low and behold I had listings with correct times !!!! Thought I was nuts!!!. Came back here and saw your post to redownload the patch!!!!. Pretty funny

Anyway all is good here......Thanks........Robert

[Jim_]

yup, I deleted the dup channel and i had listings after that...still no channel numbers though.

You'll need to ask -Oz- about that one, it is his epg utility.

Remember, the download utility is only in the testing stages of developement and I just wrote the patch to isolate and verify needed fixes to the main utiltiy. Just trying to save -Oz- some debug time more than anything else.
The patch also allows people to load the epg data, look at it in the guide, and make suggestions on what needs to be changed (like the channel numbers).

I doubt the patch will be needed with the next version so I'm not going to spend a bunch of time adding features to it.