UK Users - EPG data for freesat channels

[imilne]

I'm using mc2xml for guide data, and although it "finds" most of the channels I'm interested in, it doesn't actually pull back any listings for them. I think it's probably the same problem that's described here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permali...hread.aspx

Does anyone know of other sources for guide data for these channels? xmltvgui couldn't get them via its radio times grabber. How about digiguide? I don't have a current subscription but if someone could check?

Thanks all

[steeb]

Can you give more info?

XMLTV GUI should retrieve most Freesat channels so are you getting listings for any of them? If not this may indicate a problem with your set up.

Digiguide does indeed do a good job of this but is of course (cheap) subscription. However AFAIK XMLTV GUI is still needed to interperate DG's output.

There is one other alternative but more difficult to set up.

Steeb

[imilne]

Can you give more info?

XMLTV GUI should retrieve most Freesat channels so are you getting listings for any of them? If not this may indicate a problem with your set up.
Steeb

Yes, xmltvgui lists and can retrieve plenty of channels fine (I've attached the list), but many of the freesat channels mentioned in that other posting are missing. Specifically for me, I'm after the following:

itv4 +1
russia today
al jazeera
chartshow
vault
clubland tv
pop girl
kix

and these two, which aren't freesat:

body in balance
luxe hd

All the other channels, including ITV HD I can get from either xmltvgui or mc2xml. The ones above are valid channels to mc2xml, but it doesn't find any programme listings for them.

It's not a big deal, as none of them will get watched much, but it would be nice to have a complete EPG.

Iain

[shadowze]

You can add +1 channels to xmltv gui pretty easily

C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\settings\UK_RT\channels.lua <- master channel list (used to get channel ID number )

C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\scripts\uk_rt\ukrt_plus1_gen.lua <- used to get a normal channel then create a +1 version of same channel

This code section from above file to add more +1 channels for me

local availablechannels={
{name="More4+1",offset=1,id="1959"},
{name="FX+2",offset=2,id="1461"},
{name="Paramount Comedy+1",offset=1,id="1061"},
{name="ITV2 +1",offset=1,id="185"},
{name="ITV3 +1",offset=1,id="1859"},
{name="ITV4 +1",offset=1,id="1961"},
{name="Sci-Fi +1",offset=1,id="244"},
{name="UKTV Drama +1",offset=1,id="292"},
{name="Zone Reality +1",offset=1,id="746"},
{name="Dave +1",offset=1,id="2050"},
{name="Movies4Men+1",offset=1,id="2058"},
{name="Channel 4 +1",offset=1,id="132"}
}

The ID is looked up from first file.

Ok that gets you itv4+1
Al jezerra is in the channel list ( hit Refresh channels to make sure its there for you)

Sadly rest of channels are not available thru the standard RT reader :-(

[imilne]

Ok that gets you itv4+1
Al jezerra is in the channel list ( hit Refresh channels to make sure its there for you)

Cheers for that. It's another two off the list anyway.

[steeb]

Digiguide lists all the others you are now missing except they don't appear to have Clubland. I agree it is nice to have a full EPG! The digiguide harvesting into XMLTV GUI works very well just depends if it is worth spending on subscription to get data for a few channels you may not even watch.

There was a way to grab data from S*Y TV listings but haven't used it for a while so don't know if it still works but guess they should have your missing channels. If I rememebr this was slightly difficult to set up.

Steeb

[martint123]

A couple that might be worth trying?

There was DVBGuide that now captures DVB-S EPG data
http://www.geocities.com/pclareuk/DVBGuide/

and one that grabbed stuff off http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings listings
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showt...p?t=823104

[imilne]

A couple that might be worth trying?

There was DVBGuide that now captures DVB-S EPG data
http://www.geocities.com/pclareuk/DVBGuide/

Yep, that seems to have worked quite nicely for all the channels that are carried on freesat.

In my setup, I have 3x freeview tuners and 2x sat, and I haven't bothered to tune in the sat channels that are also carried on freeview, or channels that are of no interest to my household. DVBGuide pulls back *everything* though, which I didn't want, so I wrote a script to post-process its output and strip it down to just the stuff I was after.

My script also renames some of the channels. It's probably pedantic as hell, but if "ITV2 +1" is named as such on freeview, then I want "ITV4 +1" in my EPG, and not "ITV4+1" :-)

and one that grabbed stuff off http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings listings
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showt...p?t=823104

No luck with this one though, which is a shame, as it's possibly the only one that'll get me channels that aren't on freesat, such as Luxe.