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It would be a most welcome "fix" at this time of year.

Sorry to trouble you, but it is mentioned in the wiki in what looks like a duff link http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/wiki/in ... names_Text
Is it, or something like it still available to assist a thickie like myself to tweak RT names to match those scanned from over the air??
regards

I'd just like to add my thanks for this update. I should be able to get back to scheduled runs now rather than manual dummy runs first.

Thanks.

Again, many thanks for your prompt response Alan.
Quick test shows that the update is working 100%

Thanks
Martin

Thanks for the prompt response Alan - I have just noticed that they have added the header to the channels file as well, so when I tried to refresh channels it got considerably worse!!....

Martin

I noticed some oddities in my gbpvr listings and digging back it looks like the Radio Times has added this to the head of each channels data file. Going back through my backups, it would appear to have started on the 6th of Feb 2009. In accessing this XML feed, you agree that you will only access it...

Ah, I should have done, but didn't. I had checked the "missing" channels and they were present. I see from the RT forum, that they are aware.

Is it just me or are we down to just a week now. Also, so channels at the end of the list appear to be missing??? 18:35:03 - Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel TCM2 18:35:04 - Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Movies 24 18:35:04 - Radio Times returned a zero sized ...

14 days worth grabbed. Phew. Thanks RT for the fix.

Well someone is doing something - the http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/ directory is giving a graphical 404 not found page now

I've managed to use a combination of using the bleb grabber, dvb epg and a bit of awk to provide some epg for my gbpvr box.

I'm getting nervous. Weekends, bank holidays, new web host.....
Anyone any good at screen scrapers?

I have been using XMLTV with the RadioTimes grabber for some time now to populate the EPG for my GBPVR setup. In recent days it seems to have stopped working. I get the info for some channels (e.g. BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 London) but not others (e.g. BBC1 East, ITV1 Anglia, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4) Any ideas? He...

Many thanks for that workaround Alan =- much appreciated and works a treat.

Martin

I've just noticed BBC1 BBC2 and ITV Yorkshire have run out of data from the Radio Times.
Looking at the RT data, it looks like the generic BBC1, BBC2 and Anglia ITV have over 100k of data whereas my local ones have 2k and looks like local variations only.
Oh Dear!