Tvheadend epg

Personally at the moment I wouldn't mix use of XMLTV and OpenTV, they tend to fight each other (though I have done some work to improve this), the only real benefit at this stage of the XMTLV feed is the series/episode numbering, and that info is in the descriptions of the OpenTV feed. So only really useful if you plan to do some processing based on that info.

You should simply need to tick the box and wait. After startup it can take quite some time to get going, because it has to run an initial scan of all transports (this can be shortcut on my fork by selecting "skip initial scan" on the adapter config tab, as long as you've scanned everything previously). This way it'll start scanning almost immediately.

I would try the following:

1. Disable XMLTV
2. Ensure opentv-skyuk is enabled.
3. Stop tvh
4. Delete the existing database file (just to ensure you're getting new data from opentv etc...).
5. Restart TVH.

See what happens, ignore the debug option for now. You can enable it from the UI (see the little icon top right of the logging window), but it can kill the browser due to excessive logging output.

Thanks Adam, I'll give it another shot when I get home after deleting the db.

Does it have any effect combining channels from dvbt dvbs as I have done this for bbc1 etc?

Also, the freq of the transonder given earlier usually show faint signal, does this matter?

You won't be the only one combining channels however I've not personally got a DVB-T card to test this out myself.

Andy Brown (andyb2k5 on IRC) has been using my stuff for quite some time and he has such a setup. There have been a few teething problems with merging channels, but we think it might have been a result of "how" he merged them. In theory it should work just fine. But see how you go, I will try and get myself a DVB-T card at some point to allow me to do some testing.

Honestly I can't be sure about that. It might affect the time it takes to grab the data and it might be a bit patchy, but signal levels can be deceptive. I'd have to say give it a go and see how you get on.

I've also got a Freesat EPG grabber, though it's still in dev and can't remember whether its currently available in my github fork. This however would obviously limit the channels you have access to (for example those channels on Freeview and not Freesat, or if you have any sky subscription channels). I'm also working to improve the combining of multiple grab systems, so they "co-operate" a bit better, but for now I'd try and stick to 1 main service (with EIT as a fallback).

If you need any help, pop along to IRC #hts, I'm usually about and there are a few people in there that use my code.

okay I did as above and left for 3 hrs, no epg with sky ticked.

Tried ticking eit: dvb grabber and stuff has started appearing straight away, lets see what happens.

Definitely not right. If things are working it should load the EPG in a few minutes. Maybe the problem is related to the quality of the transponder?

You could try manually tuning to the transponder. Select the EPG Background Audio service (via the DVB adapter config->services) which is on the same transponder.

You should see (in the logs) it try to install the opentv-skytv table handlers, if it properly tunes.

EIT will only provide you now/next.

did you mean remove the #

void eit_init ( void )
{
epggrab_module_ota_create(NULL, "eit", "EIT: DVB Grabber", 1,
_eit_start, _eit_enable, NULL);
if TODO_FREESAT_SUPPORT
epggrab_module_ota_create(NULL, "freesat", "Freesat", 5,
_eit_start, _eit_enable, NULL);
endif

}

void eit_load ( void )
{

no, remove the #if ... and #endif lines completely

void eit_init ( void )
{
epggrab_module_ota_create(NULL, "eit", "EIT: DVB Grabber", 1,
_eit_start, _eit_enable, NULL);
epggrab_module_ota_create(NULL, "freesat", "Freesat", 5,
_eit_start, _eit_enable, NULL);
}

Thank you, I compiled deleted all my config and re-setup last night with just dvb-s and left it overnight. The epg data in tvh looked promising during my quick check before work but I will fully test tonight and see what happens when i throw in the freeview hd tuner and change the channel order/merge channels.

So you got a nice working system and you wanna go and throw a spanner in it

Let me know how you get on, the channel merging has caused some headaches up to now. I'm hoping my latest code has resolved several of the issues, but only time will tell.

Its no fun if things dont need fixing! :-)