XMLTV TV_GRAB_UK_RT - Has something changed these days?

[ron.smythe]

Okay I'm sorry but I have to say this.

1) RadioTimes You rock the world!!!
2) XMLTV RT (2.3) You rock the world too!!!!
3) My Sage server rocks the world!!!!!

So to sum up, my world is rocking to the visulations of RadioTimes XMLTV data downloading in under 4 minutes, importing in less the 2 minutes, and with out me saying naughty words!

Time to start the recomendations of Sage to others.

BTW: I'm happy. As droopy once said.

[ukmgranger]

I can only agree with ron. The new grabber is the don! It really is superb, and fast. Happy happy, joy joy!

[ron.smythe]

All,

I would like to draw to your attention, something that I class as an important addition to the already excellent tool XMLTV RT, this is the ability to inform you via email of the out come of your epg download.

Well done Alan for a brillant tool that is so usful that I can be entertained by my Sage Servers contents, rather then rant at the failed recordings and lack of notification.




Please see here for the XMLTVRT tool: http://www.alanbirtles.dsl.pipex.com/xmltv/xmltv.htm

[nblackbu]

I'm new to this so please excuse me for asking what is probable as simple question. I've have downloaded the XMLTV grabber from the link shown in the quote and I have run it and it has produced the XML output, how do I now go about getting it into Sage TV???

Originally Posted by ron.smythe

All,

I would like to draw to your attention, something that I class as an important addition to the already excellent tool XMLTV RT, this is the ability to inform you via email of the out come of your epg download.

Well done Alan for a brillant tool that is so usful that I can be entertained by my Sage Servers contents, rather then rant at the failed recordings and lack of notification.




Please see here for the XMLTVRT tool: http://www.alanbirtles.dsl.pipex.com/xmltv/xmltv.htm

[ukmgranger]

You now have to create a .bat file that will copy the newly downloaded epgdata.xml file over into your Sage folder. then you set up a scheduled task to run this bat once a day.

[eldingo]

The only problem that I have found with the xml files that this program produces are that there are carriage returns in the channel names and in the programmes titles. I can get rid of the carriage returns dead easy for the channel names, but its a bit more of a problem for the titles.

Apart from that, its an excellent way to get the RT tv listings. Thanks for creating the program

[birty]

this should be fixed now in 2.5.2

[eldingo]

I thought that was the version that I downloaded from your webpage earlier today. I'll try it again and let you know.

[eldingo]

I downloaded the newer version and it worked fine. The channel names are now correct and the episode titles are all on one line again

Because the RT doesn't provide the Radio listings at the moment, I had to combine Bleb's xml file with the one that this program produces to get all the radio channels too.

[birty]

debugger and i are working on an automated process for this and it is almost ready (it just needs more testing)

[eldingo]

Thats cool. It will save me having to work out a seperate method of combining the files.

[birty]

its done now http://www.de-bugger.com/Misc/DGUK.htm

[maxheadroom]

Following on from Nblackbu's newbie post I'd like to ask a followup newbie question:

Exactly how do i generate (or write) the batchfile for Sage TV? The built in batch file generator is looking for a file called hmnxmltv.exe, which i guess is a showshifter thing (given that the button was called 'generate showshifter batch' ).

What's the sagetv version of this?

[birty]

if a sage user puts the deatails here i can add that to the program

[maxheadroom]

I might not be the best person for the job given that I'm new to all this but if you can talk me through what details you need I'll be happy to supply them.

Drop me an email to save spamming up the thread if you like

[edgley]

There was I, all in a panic as I couldnt grab.

quick look to see if anyone else was having this problem, only to find this wonderful tool. THANKS!

As there are far more clever people here than me, I am going to ask:

Is it possible to remove bits of the channel names? It would be so nice to get them all on one line in the EPG

Simon.

[birty]

you could edit channels.txt

[newschapmj1]

Thank you to all those got the Radio Times listings working so well again.
Great work!

[falvious]

just playing with sage to see if it suits my needs. Im trying to get the epg data into it without success using the grabber from here http://www.alanbirtles.dsl.pipex.com/xmltv/xmltv.htm
have all the data, and in an xml file. moved the xml file to the sagetv dir but when i try to get the dtat into sage im having problems./ How exactly do you do this. I select configure my tv card, no to to tuning option then for the programming guide screen im not sure which option. selecting use programming guide with this source takes me to select either cable/sat or local source. I select cable then asked for zip code which i enter as 00000 and all i get are a list of several US cable companies. Where do i configure sage to use xmltv ?

thanks

fal

ps UK user

[edgley]

Have you added the java extensions to the java ext directory?

If you have, try setting up the card a few times, you might well find, like I did, that it magically starts working again.