client channel order wrong!!

[jimbobuk]

I've asked about this twice now so wont go on too long..

but now i have my actisys controlling my satellite box I have a huge number of channels available... i've not let sage have access to all possible channels just to aid navigation and chill it out with its high CPU usage bouts..

ANyways... the client now makes it near unusable... the channel listing being what xmltv returns which is garbage makes it completely out of order, and very difficult to find what i want.. the main sagetv machine has the channel order for the channel numbers that get sent to the satellite box.. as such its orderings are the same as the satelite box which after 5 years i am pretty much sorted with the channel ordering...

I really would like to see this fixed, i can't believe it'd be that hard... i guess you just dont see it unless you use xmltv... the sage tv services must give you the right channel numbers straight away... please tho for us international users, fix this when you can

Thanks

[Narflex]

Isn't there just a way to reprocess the XMLTV data so it sorts them correctly? I thought I'd seen posts around related to sorting the channels in the XMLTV data....

[jimbobuk]

ohh i am not sure... I will have a look...

isn't it possible the client can get the channel listings from the server tho, as it is obviously doing to get the channels in the first place, can the server not communicate its channel numbering at the same time!?

WIll look at the alternative tho thanks

[Narflex]

The thing is that it already does communicate all of this, it works correctly for non-XMLTV data. Something's apparently wrong with the structure of the XMLTV data that you're using that's causing it to be out of order.

[jimbobuk]

the thing is there are various providers (cable and satelite) of the channels that are added into Sage... as such the channels are just garbage... I dont even know where to look in xmltv for them, you just go through and add channels by answering the questions...

So when Sage finally gets in I have to go through and manually set the channel numbering so that the actisys can send the correct channels for my satellite box... I guess this information is being kept on the server for the server's use, where as the client is getting at the original channel data from xmltv...

In the case for non-xmltv this will be right if you set the right channel numbers in the data... the thing is if the client recieved the servers direct channel numberings, including any edits by the user then wouldn't this also still work with the normal programmes as well as xmltv data...

Perhaps you could get a poll of people who are using xmltv to get an idea of how many of us would benefit from the client handling the channels correctly with xmltv scrambled order programming...

Thanks tho.. I got the latest version last night after more client issues.. read your changelog... I really do appreciate the fixes you've put in.. no problems so far...

[jimbobuk]

Is this something that Sage studio will be able to rectify!? i'll look into this sorting xmltv data, but if the channel number is derived from the order of channels in the xmltv stream then i am screwed as my satelite channel numbers start at 101, and go as follows

101,
102,
103,
104,
105,
106,
109, <---- gap

if an index can be specified in the stream then that'll help but really it'd be great if the sage client could just have another layer of channel mapping over the server... leave the server let it send out channels however it wants, allowing the client to then remap his channels?! dunno if that'd be more messy tho that just having the client use the same channel numbers as the server does would probably be simpler, as this is effectively how it would be configured after you remap the clients channels...

[jimbobuk]

dammit.. i just seen that in the new version this has already been fixed.. you guys are the best!!! I am just a little worried about people talking about problems not being able to change channels etc with this version but i think i may chance it

great work