Over-the-air channels with Yahoo/API

[drlava]

thank you! even if gb-pvr can only read the first, there are others that can.

[drlava]

Have you looked at the ".data" file to see what information Yahoo! is sending to us? If so, and you "see" the changes you want me to make to the XML file, let me know and I'll be glad to work with you on this.

I'm looking through the data file now, it's a nice dense format.

One thing I noticed is that you are getting the V-chip (or TVRating) ratings in the 10th column, but missing the MPAA ratings in the 11th column. Movies are rated using the MPAA system, and I don't think there are ever both ratings present for the same show.

I'll keep looking at it. Did you use built-in functions to write the XML like a windows COM, or did you write the XML 'brute force' using strings?

[whurlston]

Movies are rated using the MPAA system, and I don't think there are ever both ratings present for the same show.

Both are used when the movie is broadcast on television/cable. A movie may have both the original MPAA "R" rating and a "TV-PG" (edited) or "TV-MA" for example.

[jdonth]

I'm not sure what you want me to do with the #10/#11 field information. Please clarify.

Yes, I'm using "brute force" to create the XML.

[drlava]

If field 10 is blank and 11 has something, put
<rating system="MPAA">
<value>field11</value>
</rating>

[jldet5]

I have posted a new version of the software that addresses the features we have been discussing today:

Is the time offset of +0000 being addressed so that the start stop times will be correct?


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Sorry, my last post was in reference to your perl scipt. Instead of having it adjust the time, try having add the +0000 so that it looks like:

<programme start="20070715180000 +0000" stop="20070715190000 +0000" channel="5">

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[jdonth]

The start and stop times should now be correct. Please let me know if you are still having a problem.

[laserfan]

Hey Joe I'm a little late to the party here; wondering if your tool can be tweaked to get Digital TV lineups instead of just Analog? Here in the Austin area at least the PBS affiliate has two digital channels with different lineups than it broadcasts in analog. I dunno if the base xml data will work with my digital ATSC tuner...haven't tried that yet.

For now I wanted to let you know FYI that my satellite ISP HughesNet didn't seem to want to connect to the FCC servers until after I disabled HN's TurboPage option. Normally all comms go thru a NAT at Hughes Network Ops Center and it seems it might be necessary to go around that. I hope not as turning TurboPage off & on is something of a PIA. Will fiddle some more & post-back another time when I'm not dead tired (midnight here)! EDIT: Just tried OTA again after restoring TurboPage and this time it worked fine! Sorry for the false alarm...

I also went to YahooTV for the first time and note that they list all the digital TV channels--must be a command we can use to get those too?

[jldet5]

Hey Joe I'm a little late to the party here; wondering if your tool can be tweaked to get Digital TV lineups instead of just Analog? Here in the Austin area at least the PBS affiliate has two digital channels with different lineups than it broadcasts in analog. I dunno if the base xml data will work with my digital ATSC tuner...haven't tried that yet.

For now I wanted to let you know FYI that my satellite ISP HughesNet didn't seem to want to connect to the FCC servers until after I disabled HN's TurboPage option. Normally all comms go thru a NAT at Hughes Network Ops Center and it seems it might be necessary to go around that. I hope not as turning TurboPage off & on is something of a PIA. Will fiddle some more & post-back another time when I'm not dead tired (midnight here)! EDIT: Just tried OTA again after restoring TurboPage and this time it worked fine! Sorry for the false alarm...

I also went to YahooTV for the first time and note that they list all the digital TV channels--must be a command we can use to get those too?

I see digital channels if you uncheck the analog box during initial config. I don't see sub channels though.

[jdonth]

I have no idea why you have to bypass your NAT to get to the fcc site. The only thing I can think of is it takes awhile to get the data (after all it's the government, right? )

I am getting the channel numbers from the FCC. jldet5 is correct about sub-channels but for example in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, WFAA (channel 8 - analog) is digital channel 8.1 which the FCC database reports as channel 9. When I tell my television to go to channel 9 directly, I get the 8-1 feed so I think it will still work if you want digital instead of analog for a given callsign. I don't think it will work if you are trying to mix them on the same channel.

Any other thoughts out there on this?