[Xmltv-devel] Question about mixed EPG

[Dreamcat4]

Hi !
I have a question. Sorry if this is wrong list. But you guys seem pretty
knowledgable.

Mixed tuners setup. For both DVB-T and DVB-S. This is all good but the EPG
data must all come from 1 grabber (tv_grab_uk_atlas). My issue is that in
configuration menu for atlas, it may only select FreeView OR FreeSat. But
not both. So some channel on FreeView are not available on FreeSat, and
will be missed.

The program calling it is tvheadend. Which only set 1 grabber command at a
time (although may set secondary grabber with PIPE, it's not ideal).

Should I just re-run the --configure step twice, and manually merge the
resulting 2 sets of config files? Is that safe / best way? Or is it be
better to modify the program 'tv_grab_uk_atlas' in some other ways?


2nd question: Is there some good EPG source to get data for all of the
other foreign Astra channels, the ones which aren't listed in the official
UK FreeSat EPG ? Since it is a generic DVB-S tuner (Tevii-S662).


Many thanks
Dreamcat4

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Post by Dreamcat4
Hi !
I have a question. Sorry if this is wrong list. But you guys seem pretty
knowledgable.
Mixed tuners setup. For both DVB-T and DVB-S. This is all good but the EPG
data must all come from 1 grabber (tv_grab_uk_atlas). My issue is that in
configuration menu for atlas, it may only select FreeView OR FreeSat. But
not both. So some channel on FreeView are not available on FreeSat, and
will be missed.
The program calling it is tvheadend. Which only set 1 grabber command at a
time (although may set secondary grabber with PIPE, it's not ideal).
Should I just re-run the --configure step twice, and manually merge the
resulting 2 sets of config files? Is that safe / best way? Or is it be
better to modify the program 'tv_grab_uk_atlas' in some other ways?

Hi,

Yes you could manually merge two config files as you suggest (just append the channels from the second one to the first). Alternatively take a look at tv_combiner which combines listings from several grabbers, although I don't know if that will let you specify the same grabber twice.

Rgds,
Geoff

[Robert Eden]

Can you run your own script from the application? If so, run atlas twice
and use tv_cat to combine them.

If you can't specify your own script, maybe overwrite an unused grabber.

Post by Dreamcat4
Hi !
I have a question. Sorry if this is wrong list. But you guys seem pretty
knowledgable.
Mixed tuners setup. For both DVB-T and DVB-S. This is all good but the EPG
data must all come from 1 grabber (tv_grab_uk_atlas). My issue is that in
configuration menu for atlas, it may only select FreeView OR FreeSat. But
not both. So some channel on FreeView are not available on FreeSat, and
will be missed.
The program calling it is tvheadend. Which only set 1 grabber command at
a time (although may set secondary grabber with PIPE, it's not ideal).
Should I just re-run the --configure step twice, and manually merge the
resulting 2 sets of config files? Is that safe / best way? Or is it be
better to modify the program 'tv_grab_uk_atlas' in some other ways?
2nd question: Is there some good EPG source to get data for all of the
other foreign Astra channels, the ones which aren't listed in the official
UK FreeSat EPG ? Since it is a generic DVB-S tuner (Tevii-S662).
Many thanks
Dreamcat4
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Post by Robert Eden
Can you run your own script from the application? If so, run atlas twice
and use tv_cat to combine them.
If you can't specify your own script, maybe overwrite an unused grabber.

Thanks for answering both of you.

The software is tvheadend master branch. There is no options in it
specifically yet for using tv_cat to select multiple EPG sources. Maybe in
future it can use that as proper feature, I don't know yet.

Sounds like I can use first approach (editing channels list) for same
provider. But would need 2nd approach to get the foreign Astra channels
also.

Post by Robert Eden

Post by Dreamcat4
Hi !
I have a question. Sorry if this is wrong list. But you guys seem pretty
knowledgable.
Mixed tuners setup. For both DVB-T and DVB-S. This is all good but the
EPG data must all come from 1 grabber (tv_grab_uk_atlas). My issue is that
in configuration menu for atlas, it may only select FreeView OR FreeSat.
But not both. So some channel on FreeView are not available on FreeSat, and
will be missed.
The program calling it is tvheadend. Which only set 1 grabber command at
a time (although may set secondary grabber with PIPE, it's not ideal).
Should I just re-run the --configure step twice, and manually merge the
resulting 2 sets of config files? Is that safe / best way? Or is it be
better to modify the program 'tv_grab_uk_atlas' in some other ways?
2nd question: Is there some good EPG source to get data for all of the
other foreign Astra channels, the ones which aren't listed in the official
UK FreeSat EPG ?

Can any still answer which grabber for the other free-of charge non-sky
ASTRA channels. Which is not on uk's "FreeSat" channel list (not UK). I
expect it must be here in XMLTV also.

For example French, German channels, and whatever else.
Many thanks.

Post by Robert Eden

Post by Dreamcat4
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Post by Dreamcat4
Can any still answer which grabber for the other free-of charge non-sky
ASTRA channels. Which is not on uk's "FreeSat" channel list (not UK). I
expect it must be here in XMLTV also.
For example French, German channels, and whatever else.
Many thanks.

Hi,
I don't know of any specific UK source for those. I guess you would have to look at the channel's target country and see if there's a grabber for that country which covers them (e.g. tv_grab_de, tv_grab_fr, tv_grab_es, etc).

Cheers,
Geoff

[Dreamcat4]

So you guys are not recommending the program "tv_grab_combiner" ?
That one seems supported already by tvheadend.

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Post by Dreamcat4
Can any still answer which grabber for the other free-of charge non-sky
ASTRA channels. Which is not on uk's "FreeSat" channel list (not UK). I
expect it must be here in XMLTV also.
For example French, German channels, and whatever else.
Many thanks.

Hi,
I don't know of any specific UK source for those. I guess you would have
to look at the channel's target country and see if there's a grabber for
that country which covers them (e.g. tv_grab_de, tv_grab_fr, tv_grab_es,
etc).
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by Dreamcat4
So you guys are not recommending the program "tv_grab_combiner" ?
That one seems supported already by tvheadend.

Yes, that's what I meant when I wrote "tv_combiner" ;-)

[Dreamcat4]

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Post by Dreamcat4
So you guys are not recommending the program "tv_grab_combiner" ?
That one seems supported already by tvheadend.

Yes, that's what I meant when I wrote "tv_combiner" ;-)

Ah, my apologies. Thanks guys!

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