titantv to xmltv

[pcostanza]

I'll try that and post back.
If I manually change channels, LiveTV does work. I hadn't tried this previously.
Thanks sub

It worked! Still not perfect as channel numbers aren't listed but no bad channels and they appear to be in the correct order.

[ioan]

Ioan: hmmm,could you please sort them on the channel number with leading zeros?

here, try the this (new) version and let me know if works.

[ram4x4nut]

here, try the this (new) version and let me know if works.

I applaud your effort ioan but I'm really concerned that Titan will slam the door on that UUID. I got en email back that said they have no plans to allow the general public to access their listings. If a lot of people start bangin on that UUID there will be problems ...

[-Oz-]

I applaud your effort ioan but I'm really concerned that Titan will slam the door on that UUID. I got en email back that said they have no plans to allow the general public to access their listings. If a lot of people start bangin on that UUID there will be problems ...

don't worry, people are also working on other programs.

[whurlston]

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[sub]

Ioan, you may want to consider using the real channel ID in the ID field and then put the channel number in the display name.

Code:

<channel id="23309">
    <display-name lang="en">21 WABC</display-name>
  </channel>

GB-PVR will parse the channel numbers correctly.

The "21 WABC" format name you suggest above is probably the way things have always been done in the US (zap2it and the old xmltv scrapper), but has always been a bit of a pain in the butt. Every other EPG source in the world just has the name and the number is a separate field. This has always been a problem if I'd wanted to show the channel number next to the channel name (which might give something like "21 - 21 WABC" instead of "21 - WABC").

The rest of the world uses xmltv channel more like this:

Code:

<channel id="21">
    <display-name lang="en">WABC</display-name>
  </channel>

GB-PVR will auto detect '21' as the channel number if you use the id this way, and the channel name is just the channel name. This more standard format would be my preference, but will cause problems during migration from zap2it to xmltv.

[whurlston]

The "21 WABC" format name you suggest above is probably the way things have always been done in the US (zap2it and the old xmltv scrapper), but has always been a bit of a pain in the butt. Every other EPG source in the world just has the name and the number is a separate field. This has always been a problem if I'd wanted to show the channel number next to the channel name (which might give something like "21 - 21 WABC" instead of "21 - WABC").

The rest of the world uses xmltv channel more like this:

Code:

<channel id="21">
    <display-name lang="en">WABC</display-name>
  </channel>

GB-PVR will auto detect '21' as the channel number if you use the id this way, and the channel name is just the channel name. This more standard format would be my preference, but will cause problems during migration from zap2it to xmltv.

No problems for me. I'll change the way I save my data too. Thanks for clarifying that. I was afraid to change it in case it broke something with multiple lineups having different stations on channel 21.

[sub]

No problems for me. I'll change the way I save my data too. Thanks for clarifying that. I was afraid to change it in case it broke something with multiple lineups having different stations on channel 21.

If there is multiple channel 21's, then same name is treated as the same channel, different name is treated as different channels (first becomes 21, second becomes some random number at the end).

[sub]

It might be a good idea for one of us to provide a one-off migration utility to rename the channels in GB-PVR 'channel' table to remove the channel number for those that dont want to get rid of existing data.

We'll do a bit of planning for this sort of thing as the zap2it cutoff date approaches.

[-Oz-]

Good to know sub, I'll make sure I don't use the ## - name format.