STV: SageMC - 1.0 Jan 9

[jan smit]

Hi

I really like SageMCE (except the poor Music part, but that's a general Sage problem). Being in the Netherlands I use XMLTV for epg. When I try to search in "My TV" I get a nice list of categories created by the epg, but when I try to search within one of these categories nothing happens, I see no list of programs within any of the categories.
The same happens when I select "Movies", I get a list of actions to be done (sort by date or title, etc), but there is no data to sort on.
The Movie category probably cannot be found in my epg xml-file, because that only has Dutch words in it; the same applies for all the other categories in my epg.
Is this part of the Sage functionality not (yet?) working in SageMCE for non English countries (and if so will that change in the future?), or am I doing something wrong?
BTw in the original stv this function works correctly.

Thanks and regards, jan

[mlbdude]

The Movies and category search section in this STV need good category AND sub-category data. I would suspect that the XMLTV plugin is not providing sib-categories.

[jan smit]

Thank you for the quick reply. It is true that my epgfile does not have any sub-categories, but the category data to me looks good. Since in original stv it works very well I wonder how problematic this is. Do you plan to make this work in your stv or is this purely a matter of the grabber and/or the plugin. If so, can you let me know which plugin or grabber is a working one?

Thanks and regards, jan

[mlbdude]

Originally Posted by jan smit

Thank you for the quick reply. It is true that my epgfile does not have any sub-categories, but the category data to me looks good. Since in original stv it works very well I wonder how problematic this is. Do you plan to make this work in your stv or is this purely a matter of the grabber and/or the plugin. If so, can you let me know which plugin or grabber is a working one?

Thanks and regards, jan

The Origional STV does not make use of the Sub-Category field so that STV should work for you. This STV will always use the sub-categories field. At some point I plan on adding an "All" to the subcategories lists that would probably get you past this problem but it is not on the top of my TODO list. I don't have much experience with XMLTV myself so I can't suggest any other grabbers. I would suggest asking in an XMLTV forum for that one.

[jan smit]

What a pity!
Could anybody else please advise which grabber and/or plugin is succesful at this matter?

Thanks and regards, jan

[jan smit]

Nobody?
Does that mean that nobody in Europe can use catagory and movie search in SageMCE??

[nielm]

There is no such thing a sub-categories in XMLTV -- just the possibility of multiple categories...

The importer (depending on which one you use) will put the first category it finds in the category field, and the second into the subcategory field, and this often does not give very sensible information!

There is one XMLTV importer (not tried it myself) that has category translation as one if it's features -- you might want to check this out to see if it populates sub-categories...

[jan smit]

Would you know the name of this importer or (better) where to find it?

Thanks, jan

[parkimar]

You could try contacting Alan Birtles, he has been very responisive to Sage users in the past, and he does a great XMLTV downloader

See the site at http://www.alanbirtles.dsl.pipex.com/xmltv/xmltv.htm

Cheers

Mark

[nielm]

Originally Posted by jan smit

Would you know the name of this importer or (better) where to find it?

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showpos...8&postcount=11

[jan smit]

Thank you parkimar and Nielm.
I have downloaded the importer and try it.

Thanks again, jan

[birty]

is there anything that i need to add to my grabber's output to produce categories in sage? if so i am quite happy to do so when i have time

[jan smit]

birty,
Thank you, I don't know. I have not (yet) used your grabber.

I have installed Demideus' importer/translater as suggested by Nielm.
It now works partly: I can show upcoming movies and salso earch in a few categories.
Demideus program translates my Dutch categories into English ones and for those that have sub-categories SageMCE lets me search.

Could somebody please post a list of the American categories and their sub-categories?

I can then try to use these for my translations.

Thanks and regards, jan

[KJake]

Originally Posted by mlbdude

Sorry guys no updates planned yet. Have been swamped at work. Next update will not very exciting anyway. Will include some transformation in the setup area.

Not sure if these bugs have been noticed yet:
* If you sit in a screen for a while, the clock does not update until you go to another screen
* Original air date is spelled Origional air date

[kny3twalker]

Origional air date

LMAO

[DIBU]

Originally Posted by jan smit

Nobody?
Does that mean that nobody in Europe can use catagory and movie search in SageMCE??

i have no problems with catagory. my xmltv comes from tv-movie and tvmtoxmltv converter. its works great withaut problems.

cu
dibu

[willemse]

Originally Posted by DIBU

i have no problems with catagory. my xmltv comes from tv-movie and tvmtoxmltv converter. its works great withaut problems.

cu
dibu

Which converter are you using.???


(With link please)

Jos Willemse

[ukmgranger]

Originally Posted by nielm

There is one XMLTV importer (not tried it myself) that has category translation as one if it's features -- you might want to check this out to see if it populates sub-categories...

If I were to use this XML importer, would it stop my multiple xmltv import?

Also - shouldn't the latter part of this thread, be given it's own thread?

[jan smit]

It works!!!!!!!!
By just repeating category as sub-category (in the translation file) I can now search by category.
Since (I think) the source of my epgdata (tvgids.nl) only gives 3 sub-categories, all the others had to be repeated.
Dibu: in Germany it may work differently (and better) because your source data is different and probably has more sub-categories.

Thanks very much for all your help guys!!

Regards, jan

[KJake]

Originally Posted by KJake

Not sure if these bugs have been noticed yet:
* If you sit in a screen for a while, the clock does not update until you go to another screen
* Original air date is spelled Origional air date

Maybe I should rephrase that and say that Original air date is spelled wrong as it looks like I'm saying something else.