On 19/01/06, Mike Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:36:01PM +0000, Nick wrote: > > The freqid is solely used for tuning. I don't think it plays any part > > in scheduling. > > I've set the freqid for the duplicate channel (BBC1, ITV1) etc to be the > same in each source and that has helped sort out scheduling issues. Now BBC1 > only appears once in the listings and scheduling a program to be recorded > from channel '1' (BBC1) picks the most appropriate card depending on > scheduling clashes. This is a very nice system once you get the hang of it. > > > I created 3 separate sources - analogue, DVB, and NTL - as I have 3 > > different 'types' of input. I run mythfilldatabase against each > > sourceid in turn (with an xmltv file for each source containing only > > the channel available on that source) > > Ok, done that. > > > (I would like to be able to configure a single grabber file to > > download a superset of all listings into a single file, and then feed > > that to mythfilldatabase once (but updating each source specified). > > However, if you do that MFDB will recreate any channels it finds in > > the XML that are not present in the database (which without a run time > > option, is not a feature in my book...)) > > I see what you mean. It ought to be possible to get MFDB to read the DB pick > out the sourceid and xmltvid and decide which to update, avoiding the need > for the perl cache. The --manual option could be used to add more channels, > if required. > > > > Unless there is a way to tell MythTV to limit a card to a subset of > > > channels > > > then it would seem that I have to use a different mythtv source for the > > > PVR250 but collecting data from the same data source (Radio times) for a > > > subset of the channels. I've done this and it appears to work but is this > > > the best way? (Ignore the other discussion about the DVB card's EPG for > > > now.) > > > > See above. Create one source for analogue channels containing an xmltv > > file with the 5 channels, and another for DVB containing the DVB > > channels (its xmltv file should contain the channels available from > > uk_rt, the remainder will be set up to use the EPG for listings). > > Ok, I plan to give this a go. Would it be possible for you to check > something for me first please? I'm still not convinced that the EPG data is > as accurate/usable as the RT data. > > Could you run this query and see what the data looks like? > > mysql> select starttime, title,subtitle from program where title like > '%smallville%';
Here's my output based on the uk_rt grabber listings (slightly amended query). The Radio Times listings are typically more detailed, so I prefer them over the EPG. I only use the EPG for channels that the Radio Times xmltv service doesn't carry. mysql> select chanid, starttime, title,subtitle from program where title like '%smallville%' order by starttime; +--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+ | chanid | starttime | title | subtitle | +--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+ | 117 | 2006-01-22 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Mortal | | 4016 | 2006-01-22 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Mortal | | 118 | 2006-01-22 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Mortal | | 4017 | 2006-01-22 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Mortal | | 117 | 2006-01-23 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4016 | 2006-01-23 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4017 | 2006-01-23 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 118 | 2006-01-23 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 117 | 2006-01-29 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4016 | 2006-01-29 19:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 118 | 2006-01-29 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4017 | 2006-01-29 20:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4016 | 2006-01-29 23:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 117 | 2006-01-29 23:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 4017 | 2006-01-30 00:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 118 | 2006-01-30 00:30:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Hidden | | 117 | 2006-01-30 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 4016 | 2006-01-30 21:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 118 | 2006-01-30 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 4017 | 2006-01-30 22:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 117 | 2006-01-31 01:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 4016 | 2006-01-31 01:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 118 | 2006-01-31 02:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | | 4017 | 2006-01-31 02:00:00 | Smallville: Superman the Early Years | Aqua | +--------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+----------+ 24 rows in set (0.17 sec) HTH, Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
