possible channel adding solution

[peter]

Hi
I've been using 2 methods of grabbing my xmltv data.
tv_grab_nl_wolf wich grabs almost all channels i like to watch but has very limited information only start/stop time and title

And a combination of tv_grab_nl and 2 times tv_grab_uk combined by tv_cat wich offers more and better information on the uk channels

and í have noticed that channels added by 1 grabber stay there even when i am using the other grabber. I think this means that someone cleaverder than me can explain how to write a epgdata.xml page containing all the channels you want to watch but get no data for, than import that into sage the normal way. After that you use your normal grabber. And can at least manually record on those channels.

Peter

[nielm]

I have added various lines to my XMLTV files to add channels with no data... (eg Euronews)

these lines are of the form:

<channel id="EuroNews">
    <display-name lang="en">EuroNews</display-name>
</channel>

I guess a complete XML file for tv_cat would be of the form:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">
<tv generator-info-name="dummy xml file to define channels with no data">
  <channel id="EuroNews">
    <display-name lang="en">EuroNews</display-name>
  </channel>
</tv>

You just need to add other <channel id="xxx"></channel> blocks to defined your missing channels...