Homeland Episode numbers

[mevans]

Hi all,

I'm using DigiGuide for my EPG (for OTA DVB-T and DVB-T2). I've noticed a problem with the episode number of episone 1 of the new season of Homeland starting on Sunday (channel 4, 9pm).

In my guide (from DigiGuide), it says:

Homeland, Episode: Season 2 - Episode 03 - The Smile

it should say:

Homeland, Episode: Season 2 - Episode 01 - The Smile

The Digiguide application run on the STV server says Episode 01, but somewhere between that and STV it turns in to Episode 03.

I noticed that there were some disparities in the episode numbers in season 1 of Homeland. I only noticed these after the air date, and put it down to faults with DigiGuide. Now I've spotted this before the air date, i'm not so sure.

Has anybody else got this problem?

Thanks in advance

mevans

[brewston]

This Sunday coming ?

This is a copy/paste from the web server :

Homeland

Episode: Season 2 - Episode 01 - The Smile


Airing: 07-Oct-2012 21:00 - 22:05

Duration: 1h 5m

Channel: 104-Channel-4


I'm using Digiguide & Stephane's importer

[mevans]

Hi there.

Yes this Sunday coming.

here is my copy/paste from Sage Webserver:

 Channel4 logo Homeland

Episode: Season 2 - Episode 03 - The Smile

First Run

Airing: 07-Oct-2012 21:00 - 22:05

Duration: 1h 5m

Channel: 4-Channel4

Description: The second series of the Emmy Award-winning, dark, compelling US thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis comes to Channel 4. Months after Carrie's expulsion from the CIA and the dramatic events that prompted her to undergo electro-convulsive therapy, the former CIA officer is on the slow path to recovery and has found a degree of peace within the protective embrace of her suburban family.

Category: Other - First Run - 2011

Original Air Date: Sunday, 7 October 2012

Stereo

Show ID: EP0242570017

Internal details: AiringID=4892852

very odd!!

[rickgillyon]

Seen this sort of problem from DG2XML before, occasional problems, it's why I use the Birtles grabber with Digiguide.

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

Seen this sort of problem from DG2XML before, occasional problems, it's why I use the Birtles grabber with Digiguide.

Absolutely, the Birtles is the way forward, I've also wrote a grabber postprocessor in LUA to perform illegal character substitution in the XML.

[mevans]

Hi.

ok, i'll give that a try.

I've found this link in one of the 'stickies' at the top of the UK forum, which seams to make sense. Although on the XMLTV GUI Wiki, it gets you to install the DG2XML skin, which sounds a bit odd, if i'm tryin to get away form DG2XML!

Just to make things as clear to myself as possible ...

XMLTV Importer for SageTV, calls Birtles Grabber, which gets it's data direct from the Digiguide for Windows application on my STV server PC.

In order to make this switch, i guess i install Birtles Grabber, set it up for Digiguide, and then point 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV' at 'Birtles Grabber' (not DG2XML which is where it currently points).

Thanks

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by mevans

XMLTV Importer for SageTV, calls Birtles Grabber, which gets it's data direct from the Digiguide for Windows application on my STV server PC.

Correct!

In order to make this switch, i guess i install Birtles Grabber, set it up for Digiguide, and then point 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV' at 'Birtles Grabber' (not DG2XML which is where it currently points).

Correct!, But when you setup the Birtles to connect to DigiGuide it does it via web server interface (port 2402 & a password is required), so you must make sure the DigiGuide Web Service -> Web Skin is set to "web".

Eddy

[mevans]

Hi Eddy,

Thanks - i'll give that a go!

Mevans

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by mevans

Hi Eddy,

Thanks - i'll give that a go!

Mevans

Oh, another thing, the Birtles package comes with two executables, the GUI and command line version, of course you have to use the GUI to configure and the command line version for the Stephane importer.

Eddy

[mevans]

OK, thanks.

Here's for an update...

I've installed 'Birtles Grabber' and set up (mostly accepted the defaults).
Set a password in 'Digiguide' for it's web server (skin set to "web").
Tested 'Birtles Grabber' via it's GUI
Checked the output with XMLTV EPG Viewer.
Check that the 'Birtles Grabber' XmltvConsole.exe ran from 'Start'/'Run'.
Adjusted the settings in 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV' to point at the 'XMLTV GUI' 'data.xml' file.
Adjusted the settings in 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV' to point at 'Birtles Grabber' XmltvConsole.exe with no 'arguments'.
Ran a manual "Update Guide Data" in 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV', got a load of errors because it didn't know which SageTV channels should be associated with which EPG channel data.
I had to remap the "XMLTV Data" column in the "Channel Lineups" section of 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV'
Ran a manual "Update Guide Data" in 'XMLTV Importer for SageTV'. this time it worked.
On the SageTV webserver, i forced an EPG update.
Gave it a minute, and checked the EPG on the SageTV webserver.
Homeland on this coming sunday is now displaying correctly as episode 1.

Homeland

Episode: Season 2 - Episode 01 - The Smile

First Run

Airing: 07-Oct-2012 21:00 - 22:05

Duration: 1h 5m

Channel: 4-Channel4

Description: The second series of the Emmy Award-winning, dark, compelling US thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis comes to Channel 4. Months after Carrie's expulsion from the CIA and the dramatic events that prompted her to undergo electro-convulsive therapy, the former CIA officer is on the slow path to recovery and has found a degree of peace within the protective embrace of her suburban family.

Category: Other - First Run - 2011

Original Air Date: Sunday, 7 October 2012

Stereo

Show ID: EP0242570016

Internal details: AiringID=5103379

The HD version on Channel 4 HD doesn't have the HD tag though, although it knows that it is HD (see "Stereo, HDTV"):

Homeland

Episode: Season 2 - Episode 01 - The Smile

First Run

Airing: 07-Oct-2012 21:00 - 22:05

Duration: 1h 5m

Channel: 52-Channel4HD

Description: The second series of the Emmy Award-winning, dark, compelling US thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis comes to Channel 4. Months after Carrie's expulsion from the CIA and the dramatic events that prompted her to undergo electro-convulsive therapy, the former CIA officer is on the slow path to recovery and has found a degree of peace within the protective embrace of her suburban family.

Category: Other - First Run - 2011

Original Air Date: Sunday, 7 October 2012

Stereo, HDTV

Show ID: EP0242570016

Internal details: AiringID=5106610

Any idea why not? Does it matter?

Thnaks for your help so far

Mevans

[doc]

The HD version on Channel 4 HD doesn't have the HD tag though, although it knows that it is HD (see "Stereo, HDTV"):

Any idea why not? Does it matter?

Thnaks for your help so far

Mevans

In Stephanes importer have you ticked the HD checkbox in the channel lineup?

EDIT: I'm a little confused, the fact that it says HDTV means it knows that it's HD. There aren't any more HD tags.
Do you mean it doesn't have a pinkish dot against the show in the guide?

[mevans]

hi,

I mean that when you get the info on a show, it doesn't have the HD symbol next to the watched or first run symbol.

mevans

[doc]

Are you looking at the guide through the web interface? mine doesn't show HD markers, but the program guide in Sage itself does.

If thats what you mean I'm guessing its a limitation with the web interface

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by mevans

hi,

I mean that when you get the info on a show, it doesn't have the HD symbol next to the watched or first run symbol.

mevans

I never had the HD symbol as you describe, but I had a very old version of the grabber which didn't export the tag to the XMLTV importer, so many thanks to you for make me notice it

I think doc is right, if the importer doesn't read the HD tag you must tick it manually in the channel lineup...

Eddy

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Absolutely, the Birtles is the way forward, I've also wrote a grabber postprocessor in LUA to perform illegal character substitution in the XML.

Can you post up the LUA script please? I handle them with a DOS batch script but a LUA script sounds better. Thanks.

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

Can you post up the LUA script please? I handle them with a DOS batch script but a LUA script sounds better. Thanks.

Please find in attachment my "XML fixer" as requested.

You must unzip the file under "<Birtles installation dir>/scripts/" and the script will appear under "Postprocessors" tab, also please make sure to change the priority to be below "UK_Digi_ALT_Digi".

The script is pretty harsh and not my best example of programming . I did learn in a couple of hours enough LUA to make the script, so please don't expect any elegance.

The script allows you to configure the automatic substitution of the following illegal XML characters:

&Amp -> and
&nbsp -> -

Obviously, if you need to add extra substitution you need to change the script, but it should be rather easy to do; at the moment those above are the only illegal characters sometime present in the DigiGuide XML file...intentional? I don't know.

Cheers
Eddy