XMLTV Channel Numbering

[birty]

Originally Posted by nielm

Not the format suggested by KrisAcker, but simply:

  <channel id="london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk">
    <display-name>BBC1 London &amp; South East</display-name>
    <display-name>1</display-name>
  </channel>

-- defines bbc1 on channel# 1.

version 3 of my grabber should now be able to produce channels in this format

[danward79]

Originally Posted by birty

version 3 of my grabber should now be able to produce channels in this format

Hi Birty

I downloaded V3 of your grabber how do I do this?

[birty]

you will need to create a lua script similar to scripts\uk_rt\ukrt_altchids_xmltv.lua. the documentation is not complete but there is a file explaining the data structures used.
change each entry in the ChIDS table so that it looks something like this:

[39] = {id="animalplanet.discoveryeurope.com",number=8}

then change pass1func like this:

local function Pass1Func(grabber,channel)
	XGUI.SetStatus(2,"Processing "..channel.Name.Value)
	channel.XML_ID=ChIDS[tonumber(channel.ID)].id
        channel.Name={channel.Name,ChIDS[tonumber(channel.ID)].number}
	return channel
	end

although this will work it will cause problems if the channel already has more than one display name, i am working on some library functions to make this easier

[birty]

also there are some bugs with channel post processors whereby if your lua script fails then you will lose all of your selected channels, so backup userchannels.txt first

[birty]

any luck dan?

[danward79]

Hi Birty,

Sorry I did not post back earlier. At first I did not have any luck. However prompted by your post I tried again, it appears to have worked. I will try in on sage tv now.

[danward79]

Problem is now how do I get sage to work with the epgdata format?

[birty]

the above code should now be changed to:

local function Pass1Func(grabber,channel)
	XGUI.SetStatus(2,"Processing "..channel.Name.Value)
	channel.XML_ID=ChIDS[tonumber(channel.ID)].id
	channel.Name=XGUI_Lib.XS.Add(channel.Name,ChIDS[tonumber(channel.ID)].number)
	return channel
	end

in beta 5.
require("XGUI_Lib")
should also be added to the top of the script

[danward79]

Thanks Birty,

I made the changes, but when I update the epg in sage the channel order is still un changed. In stead of 1,2,3,4,5 etc. I have it according to frequency channel

Any ideas?

[birty]

is the xml correct? having never used sage myself i wouldn't know how to fix this

[danward79]

This is the output I get.

- <channel id="UK_RT_92">
  <display-name lang="en">BBC1</display-name> 
  <display-name>1</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="UK_RT_105">
  <display-name lang="en">BBC2</display-name> 
  <display-name>2</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="UK_RT_26">
  <display-name lang="en">ITV1 London</display-name> 
  <display-name>3</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="UK_RT_132">
  <display-name lang="en">Channel 4</display-name> 
  <display-name>4</display-name> 
  </channel>
- <channel id="UK_RT_134">
  <display-name lang="en">Five</display-name> 
  <display-name>5</display-name> 
  </channel>

[birty]

looks ok to me and seems to match what was posted above, i think youll have to wait for a response from someone more familiar with sage